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- 1911
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- 1960
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- Sense and Sensibilia Reconstructed By G.J. Warnock from the Manuscript Notes
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- The Works of J. L. Austin
- Como Hacer Cosas Con Palabras
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John Langshaw Austin (26 March 1911 – 8 February 1960) was an English philosopher of language and leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy, best known for developing the theory of speech acts.
Austin pointed out that we use language to do things as well as to assert things, and that the utterance of a statement like "I promise to do so-and-so" is best understood as doing something—here, making a promise—rather than making an assertion about anything; hence the title of one of his best-known works, How to Do Things with Words (1955).
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1911 births1960 deaths20th-century British philosophersAction theoristsAlumni of Balliol College, OxfordAnalytic philosophersBritish Army personnel of World War IIBritish philosophersDeaths from lung cancer in EnglandIntelligence Corps officersOfficers of the Order of the British EmpireOrdinary language philosophy