In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect by means of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to produce that effect; and furthermore, if he is using the words literally, he intends this recognition to be achieved in virtue of the fact that the rules for using the expressions he utters associate the expression with the production of that effect.
More from John Searle
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
Permalink to quote #4 Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.
Permalink to quote #6 The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.
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