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Argues for the solution provided by ordinary language philosophy - a philosophy that trusts and utilizes the everyday use of language and the clarity of meaning it provides - and in doing so offers a major contribution to the philosophy of language and twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy as a whole.

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"Sandra Laugier's book is already quite influential in France and Italy, and it has drawn a renewed interest in language conceived not only as a cognitive capacity but also as used, and meant, as part of our form of life. This translation is very welcome, even indispensable, and could change the perspective on philosophy of language as well as on the analytic/continental divide." (Stanley Cavell, Harvard University)"

Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 14/06/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226470542, 978-0226470542
      ISBN10: 0226470547
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      Book Synopsis
      Argues for the solution provided by ordinary language philosophy - a philosophy that trusts and utilizes the everyday use of language and the clarity of meaning it provides - and in doing so offers a major contribution to the philosophy of language and twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy as a whole.

      Trade Review
      "Sandra Laugier's book is already quite influential in France and Italy, and it has drawn a renewed interest in language conceived not only as a cognitive capacity but also as used, and meant, as part of our form of life. This translation is very welcome, even indispensable, and could change the perspective on philosophy of language as well as on the analytic/continental divide." (Stanley Cavell, Harvard University)"

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