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Every question with sense has an answer.

For example, we might say, with no visual cue, to a stranger: ‘Why is Tuesday?’ This has no sense, and so cannot form a proper question.

In the same vein as Wittgenstein’s observation that philosophy could be told through jokes, we might say that philosophy could be put into the sole employ of answering questions.

In this way philosophy can be restrained from nebulous goose chases. A philosophy of assertions, for instance, may simply devolve into aphorisms, and would therefore lose any precise sense whatsoever.

The purpose of philosophy should be solely practical. Divorce it of the demands of conscious activity, within the social ecology, and you have frictionless spinning.

Surely this shows that the Analytics have it over the Continentals.