that I never fully understood this point of Danto’s, but it is part and parcel of his idea of the time to furnish a “descriptive metaphysic of historical existence” as he calls it in the preface of "APH", with which I am sympathetic. Finally, Danto also states that...(17/20)

during his philosophical formation in the 1950s he was strongly influenced by the ordinary language philosophy that was du jour at the time. Some of this understanding of philosophy is still palpable in “APH”, though couched in Hempel’s terminology, while the main point..(18/20)