The controversy really begins when ordinary language philosophers apply the same leveling tendency to questions such as What is Truth?

Therefore ordinary language philosophers tend to be anti-essentialist.

"Meanings", for ordinary language philosophers, are the instructions for usage of words - the common and conventional definitions of words.

The seminal authorities in cognitive rhetoric are the language philosophers Mark Johnson and George Lakoff.

Ryle has been characterized as an "ordinary language" philosopher.

The best-known ordinary language philosophers during the 1950s were Austin and Gilbert Ryle.

On the other side of the divide, and especially prominent in the 1950s and 60s, were the so-called "Ordinary language philosophers".

Unlike many ordinary language philosophers, however, Austin disavowed any overt indebtedness to Wittgenstein's later philosophy.

Schedler intended to become a language philosopher, and he was enamored of Alfred North Whitehead, phenomenology, and existentialism.

Ordinary language philosophers thought that analytic philosophers had a problem with forgetting what words really mean.