What was meant by what was said
Roy Harris, 20 September 1984
Language, Sense and Nonsense
by G.P. Baker and P.M.S. Hacker.
Blackwell, 397 pp., £22.50, April 1984,0 631 13519 7 Show More
by G.P. Baker and P.M.S. Hacker.
Blackwell, 397 pp., £22.50, April 1984,
“... to measure the proliferation of nonsense. That is approximately the canvas sketched in by artists Baker and Hacker. The ‘nonsense’ of their title is the nonsense propagated in profusion nowadays by grammatical theorists and philosophers of language. Most of us will doubtless have heard of grammar. But what exactly, we may well ask, is ‘philosophy of ... ”
