On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Elliott Hird wrote: > 2008/7/14 Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> For the current case, I think "I act on behalf of myself" is what a >> speech act is by definition; whenever we say "I do X" we are implicitly >> saying that we are acting on behalf of ourselves. So the pledge is >> a tautology, "I act on behalf of myself to do X" simplifies to "I do X" >> and the deregistration worked. >> >> -Goethe > > But the pledge obviously redefines it for this case, especially as it was > directly preceeding it. It is possible that it would have worked if it were > not > for the pledge.
But that's it, it didn't redefine anything, it used the same definition as the (implicit) existing one. -Goethe
