APPENDIX
THE main use of the sets of hearersâ lecture notes, the B.B.C. talk on Performatives printed in the Collected Papers, the paper delivered at Royaumont under the title âPerformatifâConstatifâ, and the tape of the lecture given at Gothenburg in October 1959, has been to check the reconstruction of the text initially made independently from Austinâs own files of notes. Austinâs own notes were found at almost all points to need little supplementation from the secondary sources, being much fuller than any of them. Some characteristic examples have been added from these sources, and also some characteristic phrases at points where Austinâs own notes were not in literary form. The main value of the secondary sources has been as a check on order and interpretation at points where the notes are fragmentary.
A list of the more important places at which additions to, and reconstructions of, Austinâs text have been made is appended.
Page 28. The example about George is incomplete in the notes. The text is based mainly on the B.B.C. version.
Page 32. 2 lines from the foot to the end of the paragraph on page 33, is an editorial expansion of very succinct notes.
Page 35. All from the top of the page until, but exclusive of, the final paragraph of the lecture is a composite version from various incomplete versions in notes of differing dates made by Austin.
Page 52. The final paragraph is an expansion of Austinâs notes based mainly on those of Mr. George Pitcher.
Page 64. From this point to the end of the lecture the text is conflated from two sets of notes by Austin made prior to 1955. The 1955 notes are fragmentary at this point.
Page 70. âNow we can sayâ to the end of the paragraph is a conjectural expansion of Austinâs notes, which read; âNow we use âhow it is to be understoodâ and âmaking clearâ (and even, conceivably, âstate thatâ): but not true or false, not description or report.â
Page 93. In Austinâs notes Lecture VII ends here. It appears from Harvard notes that there the earlier part of Lecture VIII was included in Lecture VII.
Page 105. At line 2 âlike implyingâ is based on Pitcherâs notes. Austin has âOr âimplyâ, is it the same?â
Page 105. Paragraph (5) is expanded on the basis of hearersâ notes. The first 2Âœ lines only are in Austinâs notes.
Page 107. Line 2 to the end of the paragraph is added on the basis of secondary sources. It is not in Austinâs notes.
Pages 115 and 116. The illustrations to (1) and (2) are added from Pitcherâs notes.
Page 117. The paragraph beginning âSo here are...â is added from Pitcherâs notes.
Page 121. Line 3 âA judge...â to the end of the paragraph is added from Pitcherâs notes.
Page 123. The âiced inkâ example, though famous among Austinâs pupils, is not in the notes. It is added from many secondary sources.
Page 124. Lines 1-4 are not in Austinâs notes; the sentence is based mainly on Pitcher.
Page 129. (a) and (b) are an expansion of very succinct notes based on secondary sources.
Pages 142 and 143. The paragraph beginning âThird...â has been expanded on the basis of Messrs. Pitcherâs and Demosâs notes.
Page 162. âI have as usual failed...â to the end is an expansion of Austinâs notes based partly on a separate short manuscript note by Austin and confirmed by hearersâ notes.
J. O. U.
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{1} It is, of course, not really correct that a sentence ever is a statement: rather, it is used in making a statement, and the statement itself is a âlogical constructionâ out of the makings of statements.
{2} Everything said in these sections is provisional, and subject to revision in the light of later sections.
{3} Of all people, jurists should be best aware of the true state of affairs. Perhaps some now are. Yet they will succumb to their own timorous fiction, that a statement of âthe lawâ is a statement of fact.
{4} Not without design: they are all âexplicitâ performatives, and of that prepotent class later called âexercitivesâ.
{5} [Austin realized that the expression (I doâ is not used in the marriage ceremony too late to correct his mistake. We have let it remain in the text as it is philosophically unimportant that it is a mistake. J. O. U.]
{6} Still less anything that I have already done or have yet to do.
{7} âSentencesâ form a class of âutterancesâ, which class is to be defined, so far as I am concerned, grammatically, though I doubt if the definition has yet been...