Doe Quote by Stanley Fish

“This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.”

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We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

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“My God, my God, thou art a direct God, may I not say a literal God, a God that wouldst be understood literally and…

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Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of…

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“Justification, after all, confers value on an activity from a perspective outside its performance. An activity that cannot be justified is an activity that…

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Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

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A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of…

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Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how…

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I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

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Opinion-sharing sessions are like junk food: they fill you up with starch and leave you feeling both sated and hungry. A sustained inquiry into…

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People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which…

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Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you…

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“In his great book How to Do Things with Words (1962), J.L. Austin considers the apparently simple sentence "France is hexagonal." He asks if…

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