 On the other side of the divide, and especially prominent in the 1950s and '60s, were the so-called "ordinary language philosophers".Philosophers such as P. F. Strawson, John Langshaw Austin and Gilbert Ryle stressed the importance of studying natural language without regard to the truth-conditions of sentences and the references of terms.They did not believe that the social and practical dimensions of linguistic meaning could be captured by any attempts at formalization using the tools of logic.