The categories of causation.
This paper is an essay in what Austin (Proc Aristotel Soc 57: 1–30, 1956–1957) called "linguistic phenomenology". Its focus is on showing how the grammatical features of ordinary causal verbs, as revealed in the kinds of linguistic constructions they can figure in, can shed light on the nature of th...
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