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Using speech act theory, this chapter examines the differing functions served by religious utterances. These are not just assertives (stating what are thought to be facts); they can also be commissives (committing the speaker to a course of action) and declarations (bringing about new states of affairs). Such utterances have a double direction of fit, being both models of the world and models for how it ought to be.
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Dawes, G.W. (2016). Religious Language. In: Religion, Philosophy and Knowledge . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43500-8_2
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