However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than… - John Langshaw Austin

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However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.

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About John Langshaw Austin

John Langshaw Austin (28 March 1911 – 8 February 1960) was an English philosopher of language and speech theorist, remembered primarily as the developer of the theory of .

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Alternative Names: J. L. Austin
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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 apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.

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