Originally given in 1953 as the Adamson Lecture at Manchester University, this text has become a classic presentation of the thesis that profundity and clarity are not opposed philosophical virtues, but rather required companions. Blanshard begins with the question: why is it that philosophers of perception sometimes confess a failure to comprehend certain of their colleagues? He ends with the assertion "that the problem of style is not a problem of words and sentences merely, but of being the right kind of mind".
- ISBN10 0837119758
- ISBN13 9780837119755
- Publish Date 28 November 1969 (first published December 1954)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 July 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Greenwood Press
- Edition New ed of 1954 ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 69
- Language English