In investigating the relationship between accusation and excuse,
this study uncovers something about the criminal law's peculiar way
of interpreting human action. Identifying that something can move
us a little closer to discovery or agreement and just what it is
that is staked in criminal law. What is staked in any discussion of
criminal law is the meaning and operation of 'responsibility, '
which makes human action and its consequences so tragic. The author
confronts the idea of responsibility by mapping the work of J. L.
Austin onto the criminal law. Doing so entails considering the
extent to which the language of criminal law can be reconciled with
ordinary language, a project that entails considering whether the
language of criminal law is ordinary language. This method of
philosophizing attempts to get a sharpened perception of the world
by seeking to understand why we speak as we do in specific speech
situations. Ordinary-language philosophy presupposes that to attain
knowledge of our language is to attain knowledge of whateve
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