promisers

The Communist regime in Russia gained control by promising the peasants land, in terms the promisers knew to be a lie as understood.

LewRockwell.com 2009

The first is that such a view requires that promisers share a ˜convention™ or practice of promising First, that it requires the presence of a convention between the parties before promising is possible, and thus rules out promises between those who lack such a shared convention.

Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych 2009

Unlike an act utilitarian society, promising and trusting in promises makes sense in a rule utilitarian society, because promisees can rest assured that promisers won't do the local utility calculation to determine whether or not to keep their promises, but rather will obey the rule of promising.

Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych 2009

If there is a convention in place that governs promises, and if that convention is such as to inspire confidence in promisees that promisers will keep their promises, then promises can be said to generate the necessary expectations.

Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych 2009

So only a partner who was disposed to keep promises even in cases where doing so wouldn't maximize his utility (i.e., a non-foolish promiser) could be relied upon to do his part in a prisoner's dilemma scenario, and thus only those sorts of promisers could reach the agreements that constitute these solutions.

Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych 2009

And since mere reason isn't enough (ex hypothesi) to make that guarantee, promisees can't trust promisers.

Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych 2009

But with regard to these lavish promisers, this judgment would not be far amiss: that there is as much difference in philosophy between their vanities and true arts as there is in history between the exploits of Julius

The New Organon 2005

Oh Sir (quoth Belcolore) you men are quicke promisers, but slow performers.

The Decameron 2004

Roman people, that they did not fear the severity end grim countenance of Cato, but rejecting those smooth promisers who were ready to do all things to ingratiate themselves, they took him, together with Flaccus; obeying his recommendations not as though he were a candidate, but as if he had had the actual power of commanding and governing already.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Pombal appointed twenty-eight receivers for the various provinces, abolished at a stroke a host of inferior officers, made the promisers responsible for the receivers, and restored the revenue to a healthy condition.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various