Glossary term P

Propositional Content Condition

A propositional content condition is a limitation on the nature of the state of affairs described by the propositional content of an illocutionary act due to the nature of the illocutionary force employed

The condition in a commissive act that the commitment to an action must concern a future state of affairs is a propositional content condition.

  1. Searle and Vanderveken 1985, 16
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