avowals

avowals
A speech act thought of as an expression of a state of mind rather than a description of anything. Wittgenstein took utterances such as ‘I am in pain’ or ‘I intend to have lunch’ not as descriptive of inner, mental states, but as behaviour symptomatic of such states.

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