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If I say anything, I have committed myself in certain ways. There are questions which it would be sensible to ask me and there are certain things which I should be expected to admit or to deny. If I say that my neighbour has gone to France, then you will wonder what I am talking about if I tell you that I have just seen him in town. If this were not so — if there were not such consequences — then it would make no difference what I said; saying one thing would be no different from saying another. I should just have made two different noises.
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Phillips, D.Z. (1999). Understanding What Men Do and Understanding the Lives Men Live. In: Phillips, D.Z. (eds) Moral Questions. Swansea Studies in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598690_21
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