ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a sample of the criticisms of philosophers on the course of linguistic philosophy. It describes the way in which Norman Malcolm envisages the problem of his paper and the general line of argument which he adopts for its solution. Malcolm begins with a series of twelve philosophical statements, whose common character is that they are all paradoxical to common sense. Malcolm expresses that the philosopher in uttering his paradoxes is using words and phrases in a way which conflicts with ordinary usage, and that in denying certain common-sense propositions what he is really doing is 'asserting the impropriety of an ordinary form of speech'. It is an easy matter to show that ordinary language is correct language. It will then follow that the paradoxes of the philosopher are without justification. The chapter expresses that philosophical paradoxes 'go against ordinary language'.
