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J. L. Austin

(1911—1960) philosopher

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Austin, John Langshaw

Austin, John Langshaw (1911–60)   Reference library

The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy

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J. L. Austin was born in Lancaster on 26 March 1911 and died in Oxford on 8 February 1960.

Austin, John Langshaw

Austin, John Langshaw   Reference library

Jennifer Hornsby

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)

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(1911–60).

Philosopher reputed to have led a movement giving rise in the 1950s and 1960s to ‘linguistic philosophy...

Austin, J. L.

Austin, J. L.   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English

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(1911–60),

British philosopher, born in Lancaster, educated at Balliol College, Oxford; he was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford from ...

Austin, John Langshaw

Austin, John Langshaw (1911–1960)   Reference library

International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (2 ed.)

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(1911–1960). British philosopher,

important in linguistics as the originator, in the 1950s, of the distinction between constative and

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