RYLE (Gilbert).
Philosophical Arguments. An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of Oxford 30 October 1945.
The text of Ryle’s Inaugural Lecture as Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford in which ‘he appeared to be aiming at a precise and general theoretical account of the notion of a logical type or category. This attempt, if it was one, was imperfectly successful and he later (Dilemmas, 1954) disavowed the belief that his notion of a logical category was capable of a precise and general explication; an admission that disturbed him little, if at all, since he remained convinced of the philosophical utility of the notion and became increasingly concerned with the practice, rather than the theory, of his method’ (ODNB).
