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    It is not the case that Understanding forgiveness requires discovering what one does when one performs the linguistic act of expressing forgiveness, typically by way of the utterance 'I forgive you'.

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    • 1.Forgiveness is fundamentally a psychological process of releasing resentment, which can occur without any linguistic expression whatsoever.
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    • 2.Bishop Butler and subsequent psychologists locate forgiveness in the transformation of affective states, not in speech acts.
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    • 3.Privileging the utterance 'I forgive you' confuses the outward declaration of forgiveness with its constitutive emotional and moral reality.
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    • 1.Austin's speech act theory, which grounds linguistic act analysis, distinguishes performatives from descriptions but cannot settle what forgiveness essentially is.
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    • 2.Jeffrie Murphy argues that genuine forgiveness requires overcoming resentment on moral grounds, a condition no utterance alone can satisfy or reveal.
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    • The question 'What is forgiveness?' is best answered in the context of what speakers mean when they employ the term.
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