ᐅ The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all. It hardly matters whether such an inquiry is called philosophy or sociology. – Ernest Gellner | QuotesTrue.com

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The way forward does not lie in amateur and comically timeless linguistic sociology which takes 'forms of life ' for granted (and this is what philosophy has been recently), but in the systematic study of forms of life which does not take them for granted at all. It hardly matters whether such an inquiry is called philosophy or sociology.

Ernest Gellner

Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism Ernest Gellner, Ernest Gellner (2004). “The Devil in Modern Philosophy”, p.33, Routledge

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