ABSTRACT
Philosophy is concerned with puzzles or difficulties. It is often better not to speak of problems, because if the inquiry is successful the difficulty disappears. The readers cannot understand the central ideas of philosophy such ideas as reality, truth, things, intelligibility, understanding we cannot understand the rle they play in language unless we try to understand what language is. The ideas the work of art has are not ideas it received from religion. They are ideas it contributes to religion. Religion has grown and been deepened by art: think of music especially. A work of art belongs to a life and to a culture, and it is important or trivial in that way. If people are to distinguish good and bad art, or distinguish genuine and sham, then language must mean something. The language itself must be a source of ideas. And people will speak with a sense of standards expressed in their phrases and construction.
