![]() ![]() ![]() How to Do Things with Words (1975), edited by Marina Sbisà and, J.There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.We speak of people "taking refuge" in vagueness - the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.Sentences are not as such either true or false." A Plea for Excuses" (29 October 1956), address in London, published in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1956-7).These models may be fairly sophisticated and recent, as is perhaps the case with "motive" or "impulse", but one of the commonest and most primitive types of model is one which is apt to baffle us through its very naturalness and simplicity. ![]() ![]() 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."Truth", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 24, Issue 1, 9 July 1950.'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. ![]()
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