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The Reshaped Mind: Searle, the Biblical Writers, and by Lace Marie Williams-Tinajero

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Searle, “Austin on Locutionary,” –, . Searle, Speech Acts, , . Searle and Vanderveken, Foundations, . Searle, Speech Acts, . 133 The act of promising differs from other types of acts like fishing, says Searle. Now there are, indeed, techniques, procedures and even strategies that successful fishermen follow, and no doubt in some sense all these involve (regulative) rules. But that under such and such conditions one catches a fish is not a matter of convention or anything like a convention.

10 In contrast to Wittgenstein’s theory of the limitless number of language games and puzzles, Austin argued that people use language in a fixed number of ways. Different language uses do occur, yet Austin criticized those philosophers who would carelessly invent new uses of language. Of Wittgenstein’s influence on Austin, Stephen C. ”11 Austin, however, perhaps had Wittgenstein in mind with this rebuttal: It’s rather a pity that people are apt to invoke a new use of language whenever they feel so inclined, to help them out of this, that, or the other well-known philosophical tangle; we need more of a framework in which to discuss these uses of language; and also I think we should not despair too easily and talk, as people are apt to do, about the infinite uses of language.

High, Language, Persons, and Belief: Studies in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and Religious Uses of Language (New York: Oxford University Press, ), , n.  in which High refers to Furberg’s comparison of Wittgenstein and Austin (Furberg, Locutionary and Illocutionary Acts [Göteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, ], –). 12 Austin, “Performative Utterances,” in Philosophical Papers (ed. O. J. ; Oxford: Oxford University Press, ), .  chapter one James O. Urmson comments briefly on the differences between Austin and Wittgenstein.

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