J. L. Austin Quotes

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

History, Done, Happen

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

Bad, Accept, Full

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
J. L. Austin

Last, Word, Language

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

Character, General, Ill

Sentences are not as such either true or false.
J. L. Austin

True, Either, False

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
J. L. Austin

Speech, Ways, Merely

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
J. L. Austin

Words, Themselves, Vague

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

Fun, Long, Philosophy

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: March 28, 1911

Died: February 8, 1960

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