The "Constative-Performative Distinction" is a foundational theoretical construct in the philosophy of language that differentiates statements that describe states of affairs (constatives) from utterances that effect actions (performatives), thereby distinguishing between truth-evaluable propositions and speech acts whose validity depends on felicity conditions.
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Constative-performative Dichotomy
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The Epistemology of Fiction: Knowing v. “Knowing”
Emma Kafalenos · Style · 2011 · 31 citations
Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History
Thibault De Meyer · Common Knowledge · 2021 · 12 citations · Full text
Performative Utterances: Seven Puzzles
Robert M. Harnish · Lodz Papers in Pragmatics · 2007 · 10 citations · Full text
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