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WileyBlackwell Number of pages: 208 Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Published)

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Show, don't tell ...
Review date: 2008-01-26 Rating: 10 out of 10

Familiar advice to the novice writer, but very much in keeping with philosophy as practiced by Wittgenstein, not only in the Tractatus, but in the Investigations, too. Whether 'values', in the most general sense, are to be sought in the ineffable or in language games/forms of life, 'ordinary language' is a tricky, unruly medium (read what Eliot has to say in Four Quartets), and so some sort of effort is inevitable on the part of the reader: it is nonsense -- Unsinn -- to try to 'state in plain terms' what is not 'stateable' at all.