3.828 apocryphal yes (19)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Tue, 5 Dec 89 19:59:52 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 828. Tuesday, 5 Dec 1989.

Date: Tue, 5 Dec 89 09:21:58 EST
From: Mark Sacks <AP02@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject: Apocryphal 'yes'

Morgenbesser. For a reference, see the introduction to *How Many Questions?
Essays in Honour of Sidney Morgenbesser*, (ed.) Cauman, Levi, Parsons,
Schwartz. Hackett Publishing Compnay, 1983. p. 1.
The linguistic philosopher giving the lecture that prompted the
crack is not mentioned in the above book. As I have heard the story it was
J. L. Austin. But that might be too good to be true. Mark.