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- Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary… — Thomas Nagel
- The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But… — Werner Heisenberg
- Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power. — Paul Engle
- Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. — J L Austin
- Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only… — Bertrand Russell
- No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or… — Unknown Author
- Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify… — Alfred North Whitehead
- Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression… — Paul Ricoeur
- Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. — Alfred North Whitehead
- There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse;… — Ursula K. Le Guin
- Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in… — C. K. Williams
- And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation....… — Michel de Montaigne