More specifically concerning: j.l. austin
passim
23 June 2025, around 13.18.
…the continual discover of fresh types of nonsense, unsystematic though their classification and mysterious though their explanation is too often allowed to remain, has done on the whole nothing but good. Yet we, that is, even philosophers, set some limits to the amount of nonsense that we are prepared to admit we talk… 1 —J.L. […]
thereof
24 June 2025, around 8.58.
Still keeping up with the morning books; only about a hundred pages to go in Ancrene Wisse, and Sallust is still the most enjoyable part of the morning (some frantic ladies praying nervously today), while Descartes is cute but becoming a bit dull (though a partially abridged version of anyone’s optics would probably be dull). […]