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 or an illusory ideal.
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. - J. L. Austin
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
- J. L. Austin
But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense som… - J. L. Austin
But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense som…
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
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
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… - J. L. Austin
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… - J. L. Austin
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…
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. - J. L. Austin
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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. - J. L. Austin
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.
Fact is richer than diction. - J. L. Austin
Fact is richer than diction.
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… - J. L. Austin
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…
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