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Publication details [#61397]

Forsberg, Niklas. 2016. Where's the disagreement? The significance of the ordinary in Austin and Ayer. Language & Communication 49 : 45–55.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

correctness | ordinary language | ordinary language philosophy | philosophy of language | standardization

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Reverting to the rather agitated Austin-Ayer debate on the meaning of the ordinary, it is argued that ordinary language is not a standard of correctness, and that ordinary language philosophy prompts us to problematize ‘ordinary language’ for philosophy.