单词 | descriptive fallacy |
释义 | > as lemmasdescriptive fallacy descriptive fallacy n. (in or with reference to the philosophy of J. L. Austin) the fallacy that all statements can be understood purely in terms of their descriptive meaning (see sense A. 2c). ΚΠ 1946 J. L. Austin in Proc. Aristotelian Soc. Suppl. 20 174 To suppose that ‘I know’ is a descriptive phrase, is only one example of the descriptive fallacy, so common in philosophy... Utterance of obvious ritual phrases, in the appropriate circumstances, is not describing the action we are doing, but doing it. 2005 M. Duffy How Lang., Ritual & Sacraments Work i. 77 A speech act is not merely a true or false report as the Descriptive Fallacy would have it. < as lemmas |
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