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It served as the basis for the present investigation; the tension that arose between the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) and the Constitutional Court of Colombia (The Court) as a result of the entry into force of the Political Constitution of 1991, the prevalence that it has in the legal system, and above all, the core function that the Court has to safeguard the fundamental rights of citizens. Through this text, it is intended to show, based on experience and theoretical analysis, that the philosophy of language provides the method applied by the Constitutional Court of Colombia, to resolve the tensions between its illocutionary speech acts and those issued by the Supreme Court of Justice in the fulfillment of its function as guardian of the constitution. The methodology is exploratory; the foundations of the theories of some of the most representative philosophers of language have been analyzed, finding in theory coined by Austin and endorsed by Searle the best source to respond to the concern raised; likewise, a search has been made of the sentences of the Constitutional Court of Colombia in which the High Court based itself on the issue of language to solve the problems put under their consideration. When analyzing these sentences, it was possible to show that the philosophy of language provides adequate tools for analyzing legal language to the Court. In some cases, even its rulings have as their source what the philosophers of the language studied in our investigation stated.
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