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John Langshaw Austin ( March 28 , 1911 – February 8 , 1960 ) was a British philosopher of language and speech theorist. Sourced The Nicomachean Ethics is only intended as a guide for politicians, and they are only concerned to know what is good, not...


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The English philosopher John Langshaw Austin (1911-1960) taught a generation of Oxford students a rigorous style of philosophizing based on language analysis. John Langshaw Austin was born in Lancaster on March 26, 1911. In 1924 he entered Shrewsbury...
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J. L. Austin was a leader of the "ordinary language" school of philosophy, which dominated Anglo-American philosophy for about twenty-five years after World War II. This movement, also known as the Oxford School, continues to wield some influence,...


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Austin, John Langshaw (1911–1960) Summary
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Austin, John Langshaw(1911 s Philosophy. Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1971. Graham, Keith. J. L. Austin. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1977. Holdcraft, David. Words and Deeds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. Rorty, Richard, ed....
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John Langshaw Austin (March 28, 1911 – February 8, 1960) was a British philosopher of language, born in Lancaster and educated at Balliol College, Oxford University. Austin is widely associated with the concept of the speech act and the idea that...


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The American Statistician
Austin, P. C., and Brunner, L. J. (2003), "Type I Error Inflation in the Presence of a Ceiling Effect," The American Statistician, 57, 97-104: comment by Kraemer.(Letters to the Editor)
08/01/2003: 1,992 words, approx. 7 pages
Austin and Brunner examined an interesting issue important to biomedical research: the situation in which an independent variable, [X.sub.1] in a multiple linear regression is "subject to a ceiling effect." This term covers what has also been referred to as a variable being "truncated"...
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The Review of Metaphysics
What has J. L. Austin to do with Confucius? (Philosophical Abstracts).(Brief Article)
03/01/2002: 102 words, approx. 0 pages
In the first chapter of Confucius: The Secular as Sacred, Herbert Fingarette argues that in the Analects Confucius holds the essence of human virtue to be a kind of magic power and this magic can be explained in terms of J. L. Austin's analysis...
 


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