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Next, 'real' is what we may call a trouser-word. It is usually thought, and I dare say usually rightly thought, that what one migh ...
Sentences are not as such either true or false.
Certainly, then, ordinary language is not the last word: in
principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon, an
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Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things;we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apar ...
Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connections they have found worth ma ...
In the history of human inquiry, philosophy has the place of the initial central sun, seminal and tumultuous; from time to time it ...
To suppose that "I know" is a descriptive phrase, is only one example of the descriptive fallacy, so common in philosophy. Even if ...
I am using it [the word 'perceive'] here in such a way that to say of an object that it is perceived does not entail saying that i ...
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Words ... are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in 'f ...
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