Famous Quotes | Certainly ordinary language has...

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than the metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men. - J.L. (John Langshaw) Austin
Attribution: J.L. (John Langshaw) Austin (1911–1960), British philosopher. “A Plea for Excuses,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1956). Philosophical Papers, p. 185, Oxford University Press, second edition (1970).

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