"There are more ways of outraging speech than……" — J L Austin
"There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely."
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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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Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all…
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More Contradiction Quotes
This quote is filed under Contradiction Quotes,
one of 604 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
— Douglas Adams
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
— Georges Bataille
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,…
— Andre Breton
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary…
— Fidel Castro
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer…
— Winston Churchill
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether…
— Thomas Paine
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