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J L Austin has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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Sentences are not as such either true or false.
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In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was…
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After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are…
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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
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But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and…
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Fact is richer than diction.
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Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of…
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Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
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I am never in a hurry to reach details. First and above all I am interested in the large masses and the…
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At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or…
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From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is,…
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