The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

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.

A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.

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.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

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

Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the lifetimes of many generation; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of thee survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonably practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our arm-chairs of an afternoon-the most favoured alternative method.