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Philosophy of LanguageBeginner10 minPlanned

Doing Things with Words

Promising, naming, and warning, and why some utterances are acts rather than reports

Planned, not yet written

This rung already has its place in the Philosophy of Language ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will definespeech actperformative utteranceillocutionary forceperlocutionary effectassertion
Assumesspeaker meaning

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