Utterance vs Constative - What's the difference?
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An act of uttering.
* (John Milton)
Something spoken.
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, title= * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
The ability to speak.
Manner of speaking.
* Bible, Acts ii. 4
* (John Keats)
(obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
(obsolete) Putting in circulation.
The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
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*:And soo they mette soo hard / that syre Palomydes felle to the erthe hors and alle / Thenne sir Bleoberis cryed a lowde and said thus / make the redy thou fals traytour knyghte Breuse saunce pyte / for wete thow certaynly I wille haue adoo with the to the vtteraunce for the noble knyghtes and ladyes that thou hast falsly bitraid
(linguistics) Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
* One thing, however, that it will be more dangerous to do, and that we are very prone to do, is to take it that we somehow know that the primary or primitive use of sentences must be, because it ought to be, statemental or constative , in the philosophers' preferred sense of simply uttering something whose sole pretension is to be true or false and which is not liable to criticism in any other dimension. - "How To Do Things With Words" (1962) by JL Austin (OUP paperback edition, 72)
As a noun utterance
is an act of uttering.As an adjective constative is
pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.utterance
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Alternative forms
* utteraunceEtymology 1
FromNoun
(en noun)- at length gave utterance to these words
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- To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance : that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
- Theybegan to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance .
- O, how unlike / To that large utterance of the early gods!
- (Francis Bacon)
Quotations
* Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. — Thomas HillEtymology 2
From (etyl) oultrance.Noun
(en noun)References
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Adjective
(-)- ''Statements are constative utterances.
