"Austin's work ultimately suggeststhat all speech and all utterance "is the doing of...
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"Austin's work ultimately suggests
that all speech and all utterance "is the doing of something
with words and signs, "challenging a metaphysics
of language that would posit "propositional assertion as the
essence of language and meaning." And I'm the him of this!
that all speech and all utterance "is the doing of something
with words and signs, "challenging a metaphysics
of language that would posit "propositional assertion as the
essence of language and meaning." And I'm the him of this!
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"Austin's work ultimately suggests
that all speech and all utterance
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"is the doing of something
with words and signs,
00:00:06.048 --> 00:00:09.999
"challenging a metaphysics
of language that would posit
00:00:09.999 --> 00:00:12.008
"propositional assertion as the
essence of language and meaning."
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And I'm the him of this!
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Movie Summary
The Bafta-winning Stewart Lee performs his latest touring show, focusing on a bizarrely erroneous description of his work on Netflix and a mind-boggling review from Alan Bennett.
