Acumen Quote by J. L. Austin

“Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than the metaphysics of the Stone Age,namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.” quote by J. L. Austin — Download Open image

“Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than the metaphysics of the Stone Age,namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.”

J. L. Austin

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