Fake Quote by J. L. Austin Download Open image “Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.” — J. L. Austin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fake Fake people Language People Use Vague
It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague. — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it… — John Dewey Copy Share
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity,… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
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… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Are cans constitutionally iffy? Whenever, that is, we say that we can do something, or could do something, or could have done something, is… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
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… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
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… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was… — J. L. Austin Copy Share 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… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable. — Twiggy Copy Share Image
Seems like EVERYONE complains about fake people, so if everyone is being let down, has anyone stopped to think who really is doing it? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It all had to be squeezed and squeezed again, to provide a thrill, to provide enjoyment. What did people mean, with their simply determined… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You can't even tell, but a lot of the time your favourite rappers are wearing a bunch of fake jewellery. — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
