Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Committing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Relating to commission; of the nature of, or involving, commission.
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- adjective By
commission ; resulting from a positive act. - adjective pragmatics Making a
commitment , such as a promise or threat, byillocutionary means. - noun pragmatics A
speech act by which acommitment is made, such as a promise orthreat .
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Examples
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You exemplify a verdictive e.g. when as a judge you pronounce a verdict; an exercitive by appointing, voting or advising; a commissive by promising, undertaking or declaring that you will do something; a behabitive by apologizing, criticizing, cursing or congratulating; an expositive by acts appropriately prefixed by phrases like ˜I reply™, ˜I argue™, ˜I concede™ etc., of a general expository nature.
Him 2009
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A less commissive objection is that, contra Dretske, there are candidate relations besides that of representing: some wide functional relation, perhaps, or a typical-cause relation (where neither of these is itself taken to constitute representing).
Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006
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a will, which renders me justly responsible for my actions, omissive as well as commissive.
Literary Remains, Volume 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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