ABSTRACT
Austin’s paper ‘Truth’, which was the first contribution to a three-paper symposium at the Joint Session of 1950, has been the occasion of as much sharp controversy as any of his writings. I shall not sift through this controversial fall-out in detail, since much of it was, I believe, beside the point-sometimes insisting upon things that Austin did not deny, sometimes firmly denying things that he did not assert, and sometimes debating issues that, to the main issue, do not much matter. It will be as well, however, to glance at some of these points by way of one or two preliminary observations.
