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    Uptake has a 'backward reach', meaning uptake must be capable of being satisfied after the promissory obligation has already attached.

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    • 1.Cases exist in which promisees are delayed, absent, or not yet specified at the time the promissory obligation is created.
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    • 2.In such cases, the promissory obligation attaches before the promisee can satisfy uptake conditions.
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    • 3.A coherent account of promising must allow uptake to be satisfied in these cases.
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    • 1.Austinian speech act theory requires uptake to be contemporaneous with illocution, not retroactively satisfied after the act is complete.
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    • 2.If uptake can occur after obligation attaches, the illocutionary force of promising is severed from the social recognition that constitutes it.
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    • 3.An obligation that exists prior to its constitutive conditions being met is not a promissory obligation but a unilateral intention with no binding normative ground.
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    • 1.Scanlon's contractualist account grounds promissory obligation in the promisee's reasonable reliance, which cannot precede the promisee's awareness of the promise.
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    • 2.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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    Similarly James S. Taylor (2021) argues that authority views like Owens’, that appeal to the possible exercise of power over the promisor by the promisee, can’t accommodate dead or absent promisees. And Hallie Liberto (2018) through a set of subtle and clever cases, argues that uptake conditions in both authority and joint commitment views might be violated even by perfectly paradigmatic promisees. The cases involve promisees that are either delayed, absent or not yet specified at the time of th
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