...points of method which are, experience has convinced me, indispensable aids at these levels. One is that a word never— well, hardly ever— shakes off its...after weighing it up (not after thinking out ways and means). It is worth asking ourselves whether we know the etymology of "result" or of "spontaneously,"...

...studying; first, because a word's former meanings are the root sources of its present ones. Austin says, "A word never — well, hardly ever — shakes off...governing these, there will still persist the old idea."19 Each time a word's meaning was extended in a new direction that extension must have "made...

...the strands for individual consideration, 18 JL Austin, Philosophical Papers (Oxford, 1961), p. 149: '...a word never- well, hardly ever - shakes off its...governing these, there will still persist the old idea." 19 On some of the ways the use of 'culture' within cultural history has been dogged by its own past,...

...implications. JL Austin once remarked that "a word never — well, hardly ever — shakes off its etymology and formation. In spite of all changes in and extensions of and additions to its meaning, and indeed rather pervading and governing these, there will persist the old idea."9 The English...

...points of method which are, experience has convinced me, indispensable aids at these levels. One is that a word never — well, hardly ever — shakes off...after weighing it up (not after thinking out ways and means). It is worth asking ourselves whether we know the etymology of "result" or of "spontaneously,"...

...s'havia mostrat més cauteles i s'expressava d'una manera més matisada i potser també més precisa: «a word never — well, hardly ever — shakes off its etymology and its formation». Evidentment, quan Austin afirma que els mots no obliden el seu origen ni acaben mai de desprendre's...

...usage of hamartia in the Poetics is that of intellectual error. 7. Consider JL Austin's pithy remark: "In an accident something befalls: by mistake you take the wrong one: in error you stray." "A Plea for Excuses" in Philosophical Papers (Oxford, 1989), p. 201. See Physics II. 4-6 on Aristotle's...

...Papers (Oxford: Clarendon, 1961), 149f: "a word never—well, hardly ever—shakes off its etymology and formation. In spite of all changes in and extensions...governing these, there will still persist the old idea." "See Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin, Wittgenstein's Vienna (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973), and...

...(Oxford: Clarendon, 1961), 149f.: "a word never — well, hardly ever — shakes off its etymology and formation. In spite of all changes in and extensions...governing these, there will still persist the old idea." 72See Allan Janik and Stephen Toulmin, Wittgenstein's Vienna (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973),...

...by "trailing clouds of etymology," Austin writes, for "[a] word never— well, hardly ever—shakes off its etymology and its formation. In spite of all...governing these, there will still persist the old idea" (201). Semantics, then, is that domain in which the historical life of language is honored and preserved,...