¹ I do not intend any snide implication that only the purposes, as distinct from the content, of the Critical Theory are admirable. On the contrary, it seems to me to serve its admirable purposes admirably; which is not to say that it is immune from all criticism.

² As a matter of fact some recent philosophical criticism in the logico-linguistic mode is itself dialectical in that sense: one thinks of Wisdom, and perhaps Wittgenstein.

³ I am grateful to Tom Nairn, whose views here are not identical with mine, for helping me to make this Note more readable than it would otherwise have been.