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In trying to indicate something of Hall's over-all posi tion which will be helpful in understanding the work before us, perhaps I should concentrate on his conception of philosophy and its method, for it is on this point that he felt that he was most misunderstood in What Is Value? He had a very clear conception of what philosophy is about. This was a matter to which he devoted a great deal of thought. He wrote on it in three different stages of his philosophical development. His essay, Metaphysics, in Twentieth Century Philosophy,3 was written in his pre analytic period. His treatment of the problem in A Cate gorial Analysis of Value,4 in The 'proof' of Utility in Bentham and Mill5 and in the last chapter of What Is Value? Was in what may be called his middle period. He then employed a kind of ideal language method of formal linguistic analysis similar in some ways to that of the early Wittgenstem. His lecture on What Is It a Philosopher Philosophical Systems and the first chapter of the present book constitute his more mature and most extensive discussion of the matter. During this last period he leaned more toward informal linguistic analysis, but he did not feel that he had given up anything essential to the style of What Is Value? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
