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    Challenges→Defenders of performative accounts need not hold that acts of forgiveness qua performative must always function in the same way.

    Austin's speech act framework, on which performative accounts typically rely, requires that a performative utterance be governed by conventional procedures with determinate uptake conditions.

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    Austin(founder of speech act theory)
    J.L. Austin (1911-1960) was a British philosopher who invented speech act theory by arguing that speaking is a form of action, not just a way to report facts.
    conventional procedures(as requirements for performative statements to work)
    Established, agreed-upon rules or customs that a society or group follows—like how we all understand that raising your hand in class means you want to speak.
    performative(as used in philosophy of language)
    Describing language or statements that *do* something (like making a promise or giving a command) rather than simply reporting facts.
    performative utterance(speech act theory)
    An utterance that aims at achieving some state of affairs in the world rather than reporting whether the state of affairs obtains.

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    speech act framework(as the theoretical foundation being discussed)
    A way of understanding language where words and sentences are seen as actions that accomplish things in the world, rather than just statements that are true or false.
    uptake conditions(Accounts of promising that require promisee acknowledgment or acceptance)
    Conditions that must be satisfied by the promisee in order for a promissory obligation to be properly created or recognized, as required by authority and joint commitment views of promising.

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