What is the use of studying philosophy if all that it does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about some abstruse questions of logic, etc., and if it does not improve your thinking about the important questions of everyday life?
Philosophy of language
Cited in a letter from Norman Malcolm to O.K. Bouwsma
1940s
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