A Terribly Serious Adventure Podcast
The Iris Murdoch Society podcast
The Importance of Logic in Philosophy
JL Austin, born in 1911, dies in 1960. He was one of the early figures to resist a trend called logical positivism. The idea is that the main question really is what makes sentences meaningful. It doesn't have literal meaning, perhaps it has some other purpose,. Maybe it's a way of clearing your throat or expressing your emotions but it shouldn't be treated as literally meaningful.
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