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    Defenders of performative accounts need not hold that act... — Carmelics
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    Defenders of performative accounts need not hold that acts of forgiveness qua performative must always function in the same way.

    Forgiveness & Mercy
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    • 1.The language of forgiveness is quite often put to a performatory use, and it is not always put to the same performatory use.
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    • 2.It may be that sometimes "I forgive you" functions only as a behabitive, and other times also as a commissive.
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    • 1.A performative account derives its philosophical force from specifying necessary and sufficient conditions that demarcate forgiveness from adjacent acts.
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    • 2.If 'I forgive you' can function as a behabitive in some contexts and a commissive in others, the account lacks the criterial unity needed to distinguish forgiveness from mere civility or condoning.
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    • 3.An account that permits radical functional variation across tokens does not constitute a unified theory of forgiveness but merely a taxonomy of related speech acts.
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    • 1.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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    • 2.If 'I forgive you' does not always function in the same performatory way, there is no stable conventional procedure grounding its illocutionary force, undermining its status as a genuine performative.
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    • 3.Pace Neblett, functional pluralism collapses the performative account into an expressivist one, since the act's moral significance would then derive from inner states rather than conventional force.
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    Neblett (1974); Pettigrove (2012)
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    Three clarifications about performative accounts are in order. First, one need not think that performative forgiveness possesses only one kind of illocutionary force. Pettigrove (2004a, 2012), for example, argues that “I forgive you” can function as both a behabitive and commissive. Some hold that it can function as a behabitive, commissive, and declarative (Warmke 2016b). Second, defenders of performative accounts need not hold that acts of forgiveness qua performative, must always function in the same way, for it might be that even if “the language of forgiveness is quite often put to a perf...
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    Validity: The passage explicitly states the conclusion as the second clarification and directly uses both premises (citing Neblett 1974 and providing the behabitive/commissive example) to support it.

    Confidence: Explicitly argued in the text as the second clarification.

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