When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.
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A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.