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In addition to its obvious debts to two of my teachers, J. L. Austin and P. F. Strawson, this book owes much to helpful advice and criticism from the many people who read and commented on portions of the manuscript: I am especially grateful to Julian Boyd, Noam Chomsky, R. M. Harnish, Benson Mates and Hans Sluga.
The nucleus of this work was my D.Phil, thesis on Sense and Reference submitted in Oxford in 1959. Several of the ideas presented here have appeared in articles by me, and I wish to thank the editors and publishers of Mind, The Philosophical Review, The Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Messrs Routledge & Kegan Paul and Allen & Unwin for permission to use some of this material again.
Thanks are also due to the American Council of Learned Societies for a grant which enabled me to work on these and related matters in 1963–4, Miss Ruth Anderson for supervising the typing, R. M. Harnish and M. Shapira for work on the index, D. Parfit for help with the proofs and R. B. Kitaj for designing the cover. Most of all I wish to thank my wife for continuing help and advice.
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- Speech ActsAn Essay in the Philosophy of Language, pp. ix - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1969