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2023
Abstract The chapter opens with a discussion of how the war affected Austin’s approach to philosophy, and how this contrasted with the war’s effects on other Oxford philosophers. The topic then switches to Austin’s belief that looking at ordinary language can show us something about reality, and his own attempts to justify this belief ...
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Abstract The chapter opens with a discussion of how the war affected Austin’s approach to philosophy, and how this contrasted with the war’s effects on other Oxford philosophers. The topic then switches to Austin’s belief that looking at ordinary language can show us something about reality, and his own attempts to justify this belief ...
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2018
Comments on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations should be respectful and not defensive: they should follow his own guidelines whenever possible, but critically, not in blind admiration. And they should include explicitly discussions of critics of his philosophy and their impact.
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Comments on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations should be respectful and not defensive: they should follow his own guidelines whenever possible, but critically, not in blind admiration. And they should include explicitly discussions of critics of his philosophy and their impact.
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Ordinary Language Interviewing
2015This chapter uses shorthand label for the self-conscious application of interviewing techniques inspired by ordinary language philosophy. The purpose of the ordinary language interview is to look at language in use-to engage the interviewee in a conversation and, within that conversation, to provide the person with occasions to use particular words of ...
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2016
Abstract The article presents, clarifies, defends, and shows the contemporary relevance of ordinary language philosophy (OLP), as a general approach to the understanding and dissolution of at least very many traditional and contemporary philosophical difficulties.
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Abstract The article presents, clarifies, defends, and shows the contemporary relevance of ordinary language philosophy (OLP), as a general approach to the understanding and dissolution of at least very many traditional and contemporary philosophical difficulties.
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Literary Language and Ordinary Language
2005Does literature have a language of its own, perhaps rather unrepresentative of, or rather different from, ordinary language (e.g. old-fashioned, obscure, pretentious, generally ‘difficult’)? The simple answer to this old question is no, there is nothing uniquely different about the language of literature.
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Medical Language: The Ordinary Language Approach
2010Medical practice is characterized by verbal constructions. The ordinary language approach deals with what the healthcare workers and patients actually say. The paradigm of language games is positioned against formal logic, which as an abstraction has no relevance neither for our lives nor medical practice/thinking.
Barbara Maier, Warren A. Shibles†
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Technical Language and Ordinary Language
2008In order to focus my critical discussion of the mainstream approach to medical ethics, I have selected two examples: Beauchamp and Childress’s Principles of Biomedical Ethics (1979) and Jeff McMahon’s The Ethics of Killing (2002). Both are faithful representatives of the field.
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