"Infelicity is an ill to which all acts……" — J L Austin
"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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J L Austin
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10 Quotes by J L Austin
J L Austin has 10 quotes on this site.
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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…
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After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely…
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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…
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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…
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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