Green, T. F. (1971). The activities of teaching. New York, : McGraw-Hill, [1971].
“Though it is true that analysis is careful thinking, that is not the most important and discriminating truth about it. The important truth is not that the analytic task is reflective, but that it is reflexive. It is thinking turned back upon itself. It is thinking about thinking. Making distinction is an evident feature of good thinking wherever it occurs, but the peculiarity of philosophical analysis is that it is thinking about the distinctions themselves. (p. 203)
“The methodological nature of philosophical analysis constitutes not a narrowing of philosophical interests but an almost unlimited expansion. The topics amendable to analysis, the concepts that can be given analytic treatment, are almost without boundary.” (p. 205)
“The restrictive focus of analysis on method rather than doctrine thus proves not to be a narrow limitation at all. It is simply the manifestation of an underlying commitment to take care and achieve clarity, joined with an equally firm commitment to be specific.” (p. 205)
“Philosophy is an activity of reflexive thinking” (p. 205)