British
philosopher P.F. Strawson, born 1919, is an important representative of
ordinary language philosophy. He heaped
criticism on
Austin’s and
Russell’s opinions on the concept
truth and the logical form of statements, with which he made a great contribution to the philosophical consideration of
logic.
Strawson gained international fame with his proposal to create metaphysics for clarification of expressions by describing common concepts on the basis of thought and speech. These so-called ‘descriptive metaphysics’ made metaphysics an acceptable study object for analytical philosophers, who had turned their backs to traditional metaphysics for a long time.