Â This author of "Other (*) Minds" and "A Plea for Excuses" used the terms felicitous and infelicitous to refer to the results of statements and classified types of questions and responses as illocutionary and perlocutionary acts.
This thinker imagined himself giving possible justifications for knowing that there is a bittern at the bottom of the garden in a paper written as a response to John Wisdom in which he wonders why we always ask "how do you know" or "why do you believe" rather than vice versa. Â In another paper, he outlined the difference between the usage of the phrases "by accident" and "by mistake." Â This author of "Other (*) Minds" and "A Plea for Excuses" used the terms felicitous and infelicitous to refer to the results of statements and classified types of questions and responses as illocutionary and perlocutionary acts. Â He criticized A.J. Ayer's theories of perception in his book Sense and Sensibilia. Â For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote How to do Things with Words.
This thinker imagined himself giving possible justifications for knowing that there is a bittern at the bottom of the garden in a paper written as a response to John Wisdom in which he wonders why we always ask "how do you know" or "why do you believe" rather than vice versa.
John Langshaw Austin