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J. L. Austin Quotes
Page 1 of 1J. L. Austin
March 28, 1911 - February 8, 1960
Nationality: English
Category: Philosopher
Subcategory: English Philosopher
|  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. | | 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. | | The existence of law is one thing; its merit or demerit is another. | | 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. | | Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. | | Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. | | Sentences are not as such either true or false. | | There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. | | Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. |
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