J. L. Austin Quotes

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

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.

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.

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.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.