J. L. Austin Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



J. L. Austin Quotes and Sayings


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    But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement. J. L. Austin | Refcard PDF
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    Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. J. L. Austin | Refcard PDF
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    Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. J. L. Austin | Refcard PDF
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    In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. J. L. Austin | Refcard PDF
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    Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. J. L. Austin | Refcard PDF
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    Sentences are not as such either true or false. J. L. Austin | Refcard PDF
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    There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. J. L. Austin | Refcard PDF
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    Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. J. L. Austin | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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