Ryle, Gilbert
(1900–76).British philosopher, commonly characterized as a leading member of the school of ‘linguistic philosophy’ which was prominent at Oxford in the years following the Second World War. This description of him is questionable, however. He regularly made clear to students that he had no wish to be the founder of any philosophical ‘school’, and philosophical terms such as ‘materialism’, ‘idealism’—and even perhaps the expression ‘linguistic philosophy’ itself—were sometimes described by him, almost dismissively, as ‘hustings’ words.... ...
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