Baseball philosophy was Re: Bill Klem Quote

[Dave Wilton]

Yes, it prefigures J.L. Austin's work on performative utterances. I traced
the three umpire version to 1954, but it's undoubtedly older.
http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/comedy_and_philosophy/



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Amy West
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Subject: OT: Baseball philosophy was Re: Bill Klem Quote

On 5/27/11 12:01 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> There's a more elaborate version involving three apocryphal umpires,
> encompassing both lines:
>
> Umpire #1: "I calls 'em as they is."
> Umpire #2: "I calls 'em as I sees 'em."
> Umpire #3: "They ain't nothin' till I calls 'em."
>
> --bgz
>
> --
> Ben Zimmer
> http://benzimmer.com/
>

Well, these are very interesting epistemologically or metaphysically,
aren't they?

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---Amy West

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