"PRIVATE LANGUAGE"
Sir,-Your reviewer of Raphael’s The Moral Sense complains of the private language of philosophy and science, I regard that "private language" as a safeguard; it is only when he becomes lucid that a philosopher can have a’ vitiating influence. Would the reviewer be willing to sacrifice all the obscurer philosophers to Emerson, Joad, Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, or Carlyle? Personally I am all for keeping scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers obscure, and regret that psychologists, in spite of their "private language," have not the saving grace of beins incom.
prehensible.
IGNORANT
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 5
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93"PRIVATE LANGUAGE" New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 5
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