"What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For "truth"… — J. L. Austin Abstract Copy Share Image
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of… — J. L. Austin Done Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to… — J. L. Austin Blinkers Copy Share Image
Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are… — J. L. Austin Giving Copy Share Image
There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the… — J. L. Austin Cat Copy Share Image
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of… — J. L. Austin Cases Copy Share Image
But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether… — J. L. Austin Cases Copy Share Image
I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well… — J. L. Austin Angel Copy Share Image
Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is… — J. L. Austin Action Copy Share Image
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. — J. L. Austin Communication Copy Share Image
