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In the first chapter of his De interpretatione, Aristotle writes:
Every sentence is significant ..., but not every sentence is a statement-making sentence, rather only those in which there is truth or falsity. There is not truth or falsity in all sentences: a prayer is a sentence but is neither true nor false. The present investigation deals with the statement-making sentence; the others we can dismiss, since consideration of them belongs rather to the study of rhetoric or poetry. (17a 1–5, Edghill translation, modified)
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Dubois, J.M. (1995). The Discovery of Social Acts. In: Judgment and Sachverhalt. Phaenomenologica, vol 132. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8470-8_6
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