I am looking for a Dale delineated definition (name that figure) for Declarative/Indicative Utterance and Performative Speech.
Can anyone help? Please just post it if so. I also posted this question to the Google group newly created.
Thanks and good luck,
Dre
Hi Dre,
ReplyDeleteI might have recorded that specific part of the lecture, so I'll check my recording. Just to make it a bit easier, is this from the most recent lecture?
I have some stuff on induction and deduction, but I am not sure if it is exactly what you are looking for. I'll give you a transcript of exactly what he said:
ReplyDeleteInductive thinking forms powerful, general principles from an accumulation of particular reasons and evidence. Inductive thinking forms powerful, general principles from an accumulation of particular reasons and evidence while
deductive thinking draws particular conclusions from general principles.
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Every induction is feasible and falsifiable, it can hence yield only confidence.
Deduction yields certainty, Induction yields confidence.
Every deduction is saturated by prior inductions. And as a result, the certainty is ultimately a formal matter.
This is the most important parts that I recorded from the lecture, but Pam might have a different opinion since she might have recorded it as well.
I am not sure what Dale means by
"Deduction yields certainty, Induction yields confidence.
Every deduction is saturated by prior inductions. And as a result, the certainty is ultimately a formal matter."
Is anyone else confused regarding this? From what I understand, deduction is specific conclusion stemming from the many inductive principles. Is that on the right track or is more clarification required?
Hey Jeremy,
ReplyDeleteI am curious, is there any chance you would be able to send me a copy of the lecture from May 29th on Ethos, Pathos, and Logos? I would greatly appreciate it.
you can email it at tpezzati@gmail.com
Thanks,
-Anthony
Alliteration!
ReplyDeleteI can't find the section in my notes where I wrote the definitions down exactly as Dale dropped 'em, but I think this is pretty close: Declarative/Indicative utterances are descriptions of a form that can be evaluated as true or false. So for example, "Phil killed Lana," simply declares that a state of affairs is the case. Performative speech, however, is speech that accomplishes some task by the mere fact of its being spoken/uttered/performed. When the jury's forman gets up before the court and says "The jury hereby finds Phil guilty of the murder Lana," it is performative, because in these words in this context perform the function of condemning the accused.
In the beginning of *How to Do Things With Words*, J.L. Austin says that performatives can be felicitous or infelicitous, successful or unsuccessful, but not true or false. You can wonder whether or not Phil killed Lana, but you can't wonder in the same way whether the jury's finding Phil guilty renders him guilty in the eyes of the court.
Hope this helped. If it didn't, just Google Image search "Phil Spector Mugshot."
-Eamon