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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