Introduction

The very use of a genitive case bears eloquent testimony to the dramatic changes that have occurred. The two main rival positions have been the Russellian and the Wittgensteinian: scientism, and what has been dubbed ordinary language philosophy. If anything, interest in philosophy has grown throughout this century, as is manifest by the rapid growth of philosophy faculties in every liberal arts program. The basic premises Wittgenstein was advancing is that questions about the nature of concepts belong to logic, and that the people clarify the nature of a concept by surveying the manner in which the concept-word is used or learnt. For it has a tendency to promote the view that philosophers are armchair critics, akin to theatre critics, both professionally and temperamentally set apart from the scientific writings whose shortcomings it is their chief job to expose.