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According to Cohen, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac and Moritz Schlick illustrate this divide in views of the ' purpose of philosophy '.

The former, writing in the eighteenth century, describes someone waking up from a deep sleep to find that they are in the middle of labyrinth together with some other people who are arguing over the general strategy and principles for trying to find the way out.

What could appear more ridiculous!

says Étienne, yet that, he says, is what philosophers are doing, concluding: " It is more important to find ourselves merely where we were at first than to believe prematurely that we are out of the labyrinth.