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Searle on `How to promise: a complicated way' (1969)

Given

that a speaker S utters a sentence T in the presence of a hearer H,

then, in the literal utterance of T,

S sincerely and non-defectively promises that p to H

if and only if the following conditions 1-9 obtain:

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Dafydd Gibbon
Wed Oct 21 15:49:14 MET DST 1998