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The uttering of a performative is, or is part of, the doing of a certain kind of action (Austin later deals with them under the name illocutionary acts), the performance of which, again, would not normally be described as simply "saying" or "describing" something (cf. Austin 1962, 5).
In other words, this means that one does not need to say the words apologize, pledge, or praise in order to show they are doing the action. All the examples above show how the actions and indirect words make something happen rather than coming out straightforward with specific words and saying it.
What counts as a basic action, according to this view, depends on the agent's skills. [26] So contracting a given muscle is a basic action for an agent who has learned to do so. For something to be a basic action it is not just important what the agent can do but what the agent actually does.
Austin pointed out that we use language to do things as well as to assert things, and that the utterance of a statement like "I promise to do so-and-so" is best understood as doing something—making a promise—rather than making an assertion about anything. Hence the title of one of his best-known works, How to Do Things with Words (1955).
Do not put the cart before the horse; Do not put too many irons in the fire; Do not put new wine into old bottles; Do not put off until tomorrow what you can do today; Do not rock the boat; Do not shut/lock the stable door after the horse has bolted; Do not spend it all in one place; Do not spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar
Circumlocution – use of many words where a few would do. Classicism – a revival in the interest of classical antiquity languages and texts. Climax – an arrangement of phrases or topics in increasing order, as with good, better, best. Colon – a rhetorical figure consisting of a clause that is grammatically, but not logically, complete.
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This criticism is based on the idea that a person can perform an action intentionally without having a corresponding intention to perform this action. [4] [2] [3] Doing something intentionally is usually associated with doing it for a reason. The question then is whether doing something for a reason is possible without having a corresponding ...