All J L Austin Quotes
- Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. Called
- Sentences are not as such either true or false. Either True
- In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't… Accept
- After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong,… All
- Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. Certainly Ordinary
- 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… Afforded
- Fact is richer than diction. Diction
- 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… Back Pretty
- Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. Acts
- There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. Contradiction