Turn-On production. Many assumed the show's title was itself an implicit reference to Timothy Leary's pro-drug maxim, "Turn on, tune in, drop out". The network eventually replaced "Turn On" with a revival of "The King Family Show". The controversy led ABC to reject a pilot written by Norman Lear, stating that the lead character was "foul-mouthed, and bigoted", out of fear that it might anger its affiliates again. CBS liked it, picked it up as "All in the Family", and began airing it in 1971. In 2002, "Turn-On" was ranked number 27 on "TV Guide's" 50 Worst TV Shows of All
Linguistic turn the symbolic system of language. Thus, a large part of what we think of as "reality" is really a convention of naming and characterising, a convention which is itself called "language". Linguistic turn The linguistic turn was a major development in Western philosophy during the early 20th century, the most important characteristic of which is the focusing of philosophy and the other humanities primarily on the relationship between philosophy and language. Very different intellectual movements were associated with the "linguistic turn", although the term itself is commonly thought popularised by Richard Rorty's 1967 anthology "The Linguistic Turn", in which it