Sense and Sensibilia Quotes

“After all we speak of people 'taking refuge' in vagueness -the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.”
― J.L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia: Reconstructed from the Manuscript Notes by C.J. Warnock

“Philosophers often seem to think that they can just 'assign' any meaning whatever to any word; and so no doubt, in an absolutely trivial sense, they can (like Humpty-Dumpty).”
― J.L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia: Reconstructed from the Manuscript Notes by C.J. Warnock