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Certainly, then, ordinary language is not the last word: in
principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon, an ...
John Austin
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In the history of human inquiry, philosophy has the place of the initial central sun, seminal and tumultuous; from time to time it ...
John Austin
language | philosophical | science
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To suppose that "I know" is a descriptive phrase, is only one example of the descriptive fallacy, so common in philosophy. Even if ...
John Austin
knowledge | language | performative utterances
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To anyone who still feels that there must be an identity of logical form between language and reality, I can only plead that the c ...
Max Black
language | metaphysics | grammar
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The reader uses his eyes as well as or instead of his ears and is in every way encouraged to take a more abstract view of the lang ...
J. David Bolter
speech | writers and writing
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Money indeed may be considered as the most universal and expressive of all languages. For gold and silver coins are no more money ...
Samuel Butler
money | language
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UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this ...
Noam Chomsky
grammar | semantics | language
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation ar ...
Noam Chomsky
language
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When we study human language, we are approaching what some might call the 'human essence,' the distinctive qualities of mind that ...
Noam Chomsky
language | semantics
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The core problem of human language ... I take to be this: having mastered a language, one is able to understand an indefinite numb ...
Noam Chomsky
language | understanding | grammar
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