On doing things with words

Nov 21, 2011 by

[The title of this post is inspired by the title of Austin’s very influential 1962 book How to do things with words?] In our earlier discussions of such topics as telling the truth and concealing the truth, we have so far...

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More on concealing the truth: intransitives, passives and …anti-...

Nov 16, 2011 by

[Thanks to Dave Howard for bringing up some of the issues discussed in this post] To continue with the earlier theme of telling the truth, telling lies and concealing the truth, I’d like to address the issue of potentially...

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More on "telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the t...

Nov 9, 2011 by

[thanks to Olga Kagan, Martin W. Lewis and Vitaliy Rayz for helpful discussions of various issues covered in this post] In a series of earlier posts, I discussed the issue of “telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but...

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Telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

Nov 1, 2011 by

A couple of articles in the latest edition of The Economist warn us about new technology currently researched that will be able to read what people are thinking (see here and here). One of the main implication of such technology that...

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