Read For Free Essays In Philosophical Psychology Drafted By Donald F. Gustafson Issued As Hardbound

do you really MEAN by what you've just said Are you aware of your own linguistic contradictions Watch out you've fallen into a word trap!

Just when you thought your world was complicated enough, thanks very much, along comes this odd assortment of postwar Oxbridge dons who try to tell you ordinary English is MUCH more complicated than you ever dreamed possible.


You know, folks say that back in the Middle Ages, flippant philosophers earnestly tried to find out how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.


Just so, these philosophers try to find out how many things you may mean by intending to do something or wanting to go shopping, through artfully discovering and classifying the various kinds of desire or intent academically, of course!

Why all the fuss

Our ordinary language is like heaps of meanings and spellings derived helterskelter from heaven knows where.
. . not a logical assemblage of rational data that philosophers can pick apart, turn around, and cleave asunder, Logic is a manipulative afterthought,

We want to just make our way through the world practically and simply, and honestly communicate what we think to others,

It doesnt get any simpler than that!

They used to say the devils in the details, But nowyears after this book the devils in anything that publicly passes as the Truth, We dont have the energy, cybernetic backup, or even the access to classified data that our societal masters have,

Are we up the creek without a paddle I know my lifes a pretty routine thing, but isnt yours Dont you wish the internet were too Every words got a such wildly disjointed collection of meanings.
Meanings are amorphous and malleable to the wrong people,

It doesnt pay, either, to look at ordinary words analytically, or give academic tenure to the drybones who thinks hes discovered something new and exciting about the words Im going shopping, or to look at anything else in it other than the physical movement of driving to the store, makes little sense.


Especially amid widespread misinformation, Trust is now no longer even on the table,

This type of philosophy doesnt uncover truth, It just befuddles it even more, . .

Our daily life back in the sixties, when this book appeared, wasnt rocket science even though after Sputnik was launched, guys like this seem to have wanted to think maybe it was.


Well, it seems their somewhat crazed patron saint, Ludwig Wittgenstein, had bequeathed them all a priceless legacy when he died in the early fifties.
He had declared ex cathedra that all philosophy amounts to is mere language games explaining and clarifying

! everyday language ad infinitum,

So they were off!

Let me ask you a serious question, now: isnt this book, with its squirrelcage and rabbithole complexities Really just an easy political recipe for mass befuddlement When our thoughts are laid on the electronic public table, do they simply become tiddlywinks for our intimidators

Funny.
. . I get that feeling too,

While serious and committed continental philosophers snickered and made light of them all, these guys solved the problems of the world and so ADDED hugely to the problems of us presentday peons who can no longer see the Forest of reality from the Trees of bedevilment.


Yes, this could be the origin of BBB:

BS Baffles our Brains!

'Nuff said, While the collection is witty and urbane, it definitely won't be most people's cup of tea,

And it certainly aint mine!

No leave us alone with our lives of serious, committed honesty

And take your tiddlywinks somewhere else!.