Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

You are more than entitled not to know what the word 'performative' means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it doesnot mean anything very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its favor, it is not a profound word.

It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement.

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.