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Indicating a state of affairs with no additional connotations; denotational.
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There are different kinds of speech acts. The two that play the biggest part in the negotiation dance are constantive speech acts and performative speech acts.
Austin describes this view of language as mere statement as constantive and argues that language has a function beyond the constantive.
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When a sentence is heard, we are responsible for deciding if the sentence is performative, constantive, or both.
Composed of elements that are each expressible by a unary polynomial.
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Thermodynamic properties are additive quantities. Spectroscopic properties are constantive quantities. Wavefunctions, statistical mechanical partition functions, and probabilities are multiplicative quantities.