读了涂纪亮先生的新著《英美语言哲学概论》,不禁想要说些什么。这不是对著作本身的褒贬,而是对英美语言哲学家们所建造的簇簇语言构架沉重地压在身上而惶恐不安。本世纪众多哲学家在“语言学转向”的感召下,毕其功于语言研究,初衷仅为使哲学语言精确化,不免使人深感困惑。 After reading Mr. Tu Ji-liang’s new book, Introduction to Anglo-American Philosophy of Language, he could not help but want to say something. This is not a mere criticism of the work itself, but rather an anxiety about the heavy imposition of the language structure of the clusters that Anglo-American philosophers have built. Many philosophers of this century, inspired by the “linguistic turn”, have done a lot to confuse language studies with the original intention of making philosophical language more precise.