Factor-indeterminancy Issues are not Linguistic Confusions.

It appears from the profusion of Wittgensteinian slogans in Maraun's (1996b) conunentary that his thesis on the character of common factors is strongly rooted in an outlook on language whose controversial obscurities muddy rather than clarify the factor-analytic issues on which we are supposedly focused. Hardly anything objectionable in the Wittgensteinian perspective is needed for what 1 take to be the core of Maraun's position on factor indeterminacy; but since he evidently wants us to swallow that whole, he needs to show some concern for whether his intended audience largely agrees with his linguistic claims or even understands them. Here is a sampler of Maraun's (1996b) dicta on linguistic meaning: