Frege's negligence charge presupposes that precision is always the communicative ideal, but Austin's ordinary language philosophy shows context-sensitivity often outperforms precision.
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negligence charge(as Frege's main criticism of philosophical language)
An accusation that someone failed to do something important they should have done—in this case, Frege's claim that philosophers are careless for not being precise enough.
ordinary language philosophy(as Austin's method of doing philosophy)
A philosophical approach that studies how words are actually used in everyday conversation rather than trying to create artificial, perfectly precise definitions.