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“A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words… Statements are made, words or sentences are used.” quote by J. L. Austin — Download Open image

“A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words… Statements are made, words or sentences are used.”

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We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum…

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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

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The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

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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 bad but…

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Are cans constitutionally iffy? Whenever, that is, we say that we can do something, or could do something, or could have done something, is…

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The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things…

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The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly abstract expression--it…

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Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? That Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions…

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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than the…

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Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the lifetimes of many generation; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of thee survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all…

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It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not…

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In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can…

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