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Publication details [#2036]

Cavell, Stanley. 1958. Must we mean what we say? Inquiry 1 : 172–212.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ordinary language philosophy

Person as a subject

Mates, B.

Annotation

Critical discussion of B. Mates' criticism of 'ordinary language philosophy'. Mates' arguments are said to be on the whole irrelevant to the concerns of the ordinary language philosophers. To show this, C. has to say something about what he takes to be the significance of proceeding, in one's philosophizing, from what one ordinarily says and means.

Reprints

Cavell, Stanley. 1976. In Cavell, Stanley, ed. Must we mean what we say? A book of essays. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–43.

Lyas, Colin. 1971. In Lyas, Colin, ed. Philosophy and linguistics. MacMillan. pp. 131–165.