Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

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 hear…

The general nature of the speech act fallacy can be stated as follows, using 'good' as our example. Calling something good is characteristically praising or co…

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.