On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Zefram wrote: > Kerim Aydin wrote: >> we had a discussion in which >> you took the position that an imperative (e.g. an assertation that "I do X") >> was neither true nor false. > > We had a discussion about whether imperatives have truth values, which as > I recall was inconclusive, but "I do X" is not an imperative. "Goethe, > do X" is an imperative.
It was questions of type "I do X" we were concerned with though, weren't we? We had issues treating these as statements of fact. For example, if you treat it as a statement of fact, it is untrue as you type it but becomes true when you hit the send key. For some things, it's even hazier: "I hereby notify you of X" isn't arguably true until X has been sent via the forum to you. In other words, we need to reconsider/set precedents on the truth or falsity of (failed or successful) Speech Acts. -Goethe
