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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
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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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Ordinary language blinkers the already feeble imagination.
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Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.
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Ordinary language is not the last word: in principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon and superseded. Only remember, it is the first word.
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
J. L. Austin
Born:
March 26, 1911
Died:
February 8, 1960
(aged 48)
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