Properly Called Quotes by J L Austin

More Quotes by J L Austin

J L Austin has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
• Sentences are not as such either true or false.
• In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was…
• After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are…
• Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
• But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and…
• Fact is richer than diction.
• Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of…
• Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
• There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

See all 11 quotes by J L Austin »