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    Positing backward-reaching uptake conflates the moral wei... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Uptake has a 'backward reach', meaning uptake must be capable of being satisfied after the promissory obligation has already attached.

    Positing backward-reaching uptake conflates the moral weight of self-binding declarations with the genuinely bilateral structure that distinguishes promises from mere intentions.

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    • 1.Promises require a second party's acceptance to create binding obligations; unilateral self-binding lacks this essential relational element.
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    • 2.Backward-reaching uptake treats past intentions as having promissory force they never possessed at the moment of utterance.
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    • 3.Conflating self-binding with promises obscures why promisees have standing to release or demand performance that promisors lack regarding themselves.
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    • 1.Some self-imposed commitments (vows, oaths) function promissory-like without requiring real-time bilateral uptake from others.
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    • 2.Backward-reaching uptake simply describes how declarative intent acquires obligatory force through later endorsement, which needn't collapse into mere intention.
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    • 3.The distinction between self-binding and promises may be one of degree rather than kind—both create normative constraints that modify future conduct.
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