I was listening to the Bloc Party album while grading an exam, and noticed one odd lyric in _Little Thoughts_.

bq. The world ain’t just made of facts.

This looks like a bald statement of an anti-Tractarian metaphysic, which is perfectly reasonable in and of itself, but somewhat out of place in a pop song. As you can see from “the rest of the lyrics”:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&q=bloc+party+lyrics+%22this+world+ain%27t+just%22+%22made+of+facts%22&btnG=Search there’s not a lot of context to get clear on exactly what they meant. (I linked to a Google page so you can choose which pop-up infested lyrics site you want to go to.)

I guess the Police did borrow an album title from Gilbert Ryle, so maybe the New Wave revival will also spark a revival of interest in British metaphysics among pop stars.

I was listening to the Bloc Party album while grading an exam, and noticed one odd lyric in _Little Thoughts_.

bq. The world ain’t just made of facts.

This looks like a bald statement of an anti-Tractarian metaphysic, which is perfectly reasonable in and of itself, but somewhat out of place in a pop song. As you can see from “the rest of the lyrics”:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial_s&q=bloc+party+lyrics+%22this+world+ain%27t+just%22+%22made+of+facts%22&btnG=Search there’s not a lot of context to get clear on exactly what they meant. (I linked to a Google page so you can choose which pop-up infested lyrics site you want to go to.)

I guess the Police did borrow an album title from Gilbert Ryle, so maybe the New Wave revival will also spark a revival of interest in British metaphysics among pop stars.