Grice e Zubiena

 “It is possible that some of the animosity directed against so-called *ordinary language philosophy' may have come from people who saw this 'movement' as a sinister attempt on the part of a decaying intellectual establishment, an establishment whose home lay within the ancient walls of Oxford and Cambridge (walls of stone, not of red brick) and whose upbringing was founded on a CLASSICAL education, to preserve control of philosophy by gearing philosophical practice to the deployment of a proficiency specially accessible to the establishment, namely a highly developed sensitivity to the richness of linguistic usage.”

“It is, I think, certain that among the enemies of the new philosophical style were to be found defenders of a traditional view of philosophy as a discipline concerned with the nature of reality, not with the character of language and its operations, not indeed with any mode of representation of reality.”

“Such persons do, to my mind, raise an objection which needs a fully developed reply. Either the conclusions which *ordinary language philosophers' draw from linguistic data are also linguistic in character, in which case the contents of philosophy are trivialized, or the philosopher's conclusions are not linguistic in character, in which case the nature of the step from linguistic premisses to non-linguistic conclusions is mysterious. The traditionalists, however, seem to have no stronger reason for objecting to 'ordinary language philosophy' than to forms of linguistic philosophy having no special connection with ordinary language, such as that espoused by logical positivists.

But, to my mind, much the most significant opposition came from those who felt that 'ordinary language philosophy' was an affront to science and to intellectual progress, and who regarded its exponents as wantonly dedicating themselves to what Russell, in talking about common sense or some allied idea, once called 'stone-age metaphysics.

That would be the best that could be dredged up from a 'philosophical" study of ordinary language.