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Quotation by J.L. Austin
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How to Do Things With Words Harvard University Press (1962)Philosophical Papers Oxford University Press, second edition (1970)Philosophical Papers Oxford University Press, second edition (1961)Sense and Sensibilia Oxford University Press (1962)Related Subjects
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There is no one kind of thing that we 'perceive' but many different kinds, the number being reducible if at all by scientific investigation and not by philosophy: pens are in many ways though not in all ways unlike rainbows, which are in many ways though not in all ways unlike after-images, which in turn are in many ways but not in all ways unlike pictures on the cinema-screen—and so on.
J.L. (John Langshaw) Austin (1911–1960), British philosopher. Sense and Sensibilia, p. 4, Oxford University Press (1962).
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