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Type: Philosopher Quotes Category: English Philosopher Quotes Date of Birth: March 28, 1911 Date of Death: February 8, 1960 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: J. L. Austin Related Authors: John Locke Alan Watts Francis Bacon Thomas Hobbes John Stuart Mill Roger Bacon Herbert Spencer Jeremy Bentham |
But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.
J. L. Austin Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. J. L. Austin Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. J. L. Austin In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. J. L. Austin Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. J. L. Austin Sentences are not as such either true or false. J. L. Austin The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another. J. L. Austin There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. J. L. Austin Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. J. L. Austin |
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