ABSTRACT
So far I’ve been saying that so far as the business of philos. consists in Analysis, it seems to consist in trying to find, with regard to certain kinds of words or phrases, & certain forms of expression, true statements of the form “the phrase, W, or the form of expression, Z, sometimes means so-&-so”, where the part of the statement which follows “means” uses another phrase or expression, which is more complex than the one of which you are stating that it means so-&-so. I emphasized that where what it tries to give the meaning of is not a word or phrase, but a form of expression, it can’t in general be said to be giving an analysis of a concept; & that therefore B. doesn’t seem to me to give a complete account in suggesting that the part of Critical Phil. which consists in analysis is only analysis of concepts. And I’m not at all sure that it isn’t part of the business of this part of philosophy to give explanations about the meaning of words wh. are not analyses, e.g. to say that they’re indefinable, & then say more about them.
