Acumen Quote by J. L. Austin

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

— J. L. Austin

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

— J. L. Austin

“Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.”

— Bertrand Russell

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the…

— Paul Engle

“Ordinary language was a form of life that needed - and permitted - nothing beyond itself. Humans were figures in a world they had…

— Anonymous

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed…

— Paul Ricoeur

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The language of mathematics differs from that of everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. The languages of size have no…

— Lancelot Hogben

We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk "about" mathematics!

— Harold Jeffreys

Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the…

— Thomas Nagel

It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals, a kind of secret code.

— William Stafford

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power.

— Paul Engle

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power.

— Paul Engle

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton