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 very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its favor, it is not a profound word.
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…
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…
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.
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.
Fact is richer than diction. - J. L. Austin
Fact is richer than diction.
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…
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.
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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