J. L. Austin was a famous Philosopher from England, who lived between March 28, 1911 and February 8, 1960. He/she became 48 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aries, who is known for Active, Demanding, Determined, Effective, Ambitious.
Our collection contains 8 quotes who is written / told by L. Austin.
8 Famous quotes by J. L. Austin
"Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague"
"Sentences are not as such either true or false"
"Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts"
"Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing"
"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"
"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"
"There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely"
"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"
