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Full Idea
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
Gist of Idea
Bring words back from metaphysics to everyday use
Source
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations [1952], 116), quoted by Philippa Foot - Natural Goodness 7 n16
Book Ref
Foot,Philippa: 'Natural Goodness' [OUP 2003], p.108
A Reaction
A germ of ordinary language philosophy. It is wrong to think that metaphysics must be studied in the usages of ordinary language, but I strongly believe that words like 'essence' or 'objectivity' should retain their normal meaning when philosophising.