[posterboy]

pffy, semantics.

>But the goal of philosophy is not to rigorize its way out of existence.

doesn't mean you shouldn't put rigor in your response instead of giving, like, your opinion.

>linguistics -- understood as the science of language -- will never be able to, say, tell us what the connection is between the word and the world. How would it?

First of all to understand what you are even trying to say requires linguistics. Secondly, you seem to make an linguistic argument to inform a philosophical idea.

Get off your high horse.