But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation. --Austin, Papers 73.

[I]f we say that I only get at the symptoms of his anger, that carries an important implication. But is this the way we do talk? --Austin, Papers 107.

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…

Ordinary language blinkers the already feeble imagination. --Austin, Papers 68.

Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating prope…

When someone hides something behind a bush and looks for it again in the same place and finds it there as well, there is not much to praise in such seeking and…