"A young man gets on a train and sits down next to an older man. The younger one asks, "Can you tell me the time?" and the man says "No." "What do you mean, no?" the younger one says. "If I tell you the time we will have to get into a conversation. You'll ask me where I'm going. I'll ask you where you're going. It will turn out we're going to the same place. I'll have to invite you for dinner. I have a young marriageable daughter, and I don't want my daughter to marry someone who doesn't wear a watch." Lecture 12, On Questions, Harvey Sacks.

"The exceptionally significant character of this work is due to its rare combination of speculative momentum and philosophical staying power." Jürgen Habermas über Robert Brandoms "Making it Explicit".

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"The papers are published in their original form, except for minor corrections (such as, at one point, changing "true" to "false" and at another "guilt" to "innoncence")." Robert Stalnaker, Context and Content.