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

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….

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 is a stan….

There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more….

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than….

Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against….

Are cans constitutionally iffy? Whenever, that is, we say that we can do something, or could do something, or could have done something, is there an ….

"What is truth?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For "truth" itself is an abstract noun, a ….

Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic….

There is no one kind of thing that we 'perceive' but many different kinds, the number being reducible if at all by scientific investigation and not b….

In the one defense, 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….

You are more than entitled not to know what the word 'performative' means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it doesnot mean anything ve….

In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about each can usually b….

But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpre….

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age..

I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but not all do, and the….

Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the life….

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 he….

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts..

It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real..

The theory of truth is a series of truisms..