Sunday, July 26, 2009

Inadvertent Humor from Ryle

I love this sentence:

There is an important difference between the employment of boomerangs, bows and arrows, and canoe-paddles on the one hand and the employment of tennis rackets, tug-of-war ropes, coins, stamps and words on the other hand.


The author is Gilbert Ryle, in his article "Ordinary Language". Can you guess what the "important difference" between the two groups is supposed to be?