[W]ords are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers. --Austin, Papers 182.

Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assert…

[H]owever 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…

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare m…

All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be tru…

There was reality and there was reality; and some things were more real than others.

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as mos…