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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. The revolutionary aspects of ordinary language methods are then discussed, as are the areas of philosophy these procedures brought into prominence, and those they pushed into the background. The chapter ends by examining whether Austin thought—whatever he said—that the analysis of ordinary language was the be-all and end-all of philosophy, and, if not, what other approaches he thought legitimate. |
