From: palma <palma@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Can, logically, there be any such thing as a "performative
contradiction"?
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Saturday, 30 May, 2009, 5:23 PM
yes, the best cases are
Moore-paradoxes
cheerio
On Sat, 30 May 2009,
Donal McEvoy
wrote:
Of course, it may depend how far or little we stretch
the idea of a "performative" and a "contradiction".
But taking as a central case of a performative
utterance those statements that lawyers admit as 'original
evidence' e.g. "I do" in marriage, "I accept" in contract.
Such out-of-court statements are not hearsay of accepting
the marriage or other contract but are constitutive of that
acceptance - hence they are "performative" utterances. In
this sense of "performative", how could such an utterance
ever be a "contradiction" (or at odds with itself), where
this would seem to imply that it at once constituted and did
not constitute the relevant act of acceptance?
The utterance "I do because father-in-law-to-be has a
shotgun at my back" , or "I accept because otherwise Luca
Brasi will ensure it is my brains on the contract", do not
constitute genuine acceptance and so do not, in any strict
sense, amount to a performative contradiction - rather they
are imperfect or counterfeit or surrogate, or whatever,
performatives.
They fall short of being genuine performatives and so
cannot amount to a "performative contradiction".
Donal
Too much time on my (F.A.Cup watching, if you must)
hands
Aware W.O. was perhaps being humourously playful in
his previous use of "performative contradiction" and/or
deploying a widened concept of "performative" and
"contradiction"; and hoping he took only an acceptable level
of offence at my previous animadversions
Final whistle - o, god..
Next on this weary day - Britain's Got Talent
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