"But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense "red" and "blue" any more than "resemblance" (or "qualities" any more than "relations"): we sense something of which we might say, if we wished to talk about it, that "this is red.""
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J. L. Austin
John Langshaw Austin (28 March 1911 β 8 February 1960) was an English philosopher of language and speech theorist, remembered primarily as the developer of the theory of .
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