Are all performatives statements?

Performatives and Imperatives

The term “performative” is used in at least two different senses. In the first sense, performatives are generatives, i.e. expressions by the use of which one creates new deontic states of affairs on the ground of extralinguistic conventions. In the second sense, performatives are operatives, i.e. expressions which contain verbal predicates and state their own utterances. In the article, both th...

Finite groups all of whose proper centralizers are cyclic

‎A finite group $G$ is called a $CC$-group ($Gin CC$) if the centralizer of each noncentral element of $G$ is cyclic‎. ‎In this article we determine all finite $CC$-groups.

Continuous If-Then Statements Are Computable

In many practical situations, we must compute the value of an if-then expression f(x) defined as “if c(x) ≥ 0 then f+(x) else f−(x)”, where f+(x), f−(x), and c(x) are computable functions. The value f(x) cannot be computed directly, since in general, it is not possible to check whether a given real number c(x) is non-negative or non-positive. Similarly, it is not possible to compute the value f...

The Basel Statements: Updated and Relevant to All.

Instructions for Interpretation as Separate Performatives∗

In informal terms, a vocative identifies to whom the sentence’s content is addressed, a topic informs the addressee what it’s about, and a force marker says how the speaker wishes to use it to update the conversational context. I include all of these functions under the broad label “instructions for interpretation”, and in this paper I will pursue the idea that they should be studied within a s...