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J. L. Austin [1911-1960] English

John Langshaw "J. L." Austin was a British philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, perhaps best known for developing the theory of speech acts.

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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.		101
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.		102
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.		103
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.		104
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.		105
Sentences are not as such either true or false.		106
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.		107
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.		108

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