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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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Ordinary language blinkers the already feeble imagination.
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Ordinary language is not the last word: in principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon and superseded.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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The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not here given, and is never given, any other role to play, and apart from this consideration it would surely never have occurred to anybody to try to represent as some single kind of things the things which the ordinary man says that he 'perceives.
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
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J. L. Austin
Born:
March 26, 1911
Died:
February 8, 1960
(aged 48)
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