The account of social acts sketched by Thomas Reid is shown to constitute an anticipation of the theory of speech acts standardly associated with Austin and Searle. Reid's ideas are compared also with that other (and in many ways more important) pre-Austinian speech act theory worked out by the phenomenologist Adolf Reinach in his monograph on the act of promising of 1913.
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Schuhmann, K., & Smith, B. (1990). Elements of speech act theory in the work of Thomas Reid. History of Philosophy Quarterly, 7(1), 47–66.
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