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Åqvist, Lennart. 1972. Performatives and verifiability by the use of language: A study in the applied logic of indexicals and conditionals.
Publication type
Working paper
Publication language
English
Keywords
conditional utterance | indexical | jurisprudence | model theoretic semantics | performative | truthfulness

Annotation

What does it mean for a sentence, and for an utterance of a sentence, to be performative? What has truth-value to do with it? A model theoretic approach is outlined and discussed, and applications in the realm of law and jurisprudence are predicted.