»Since words exist and are in a sense agents in themselves which establish connexions and relations between both man and man, and man and the world, and are capable of 'acting' upon them, they are one of the most realistic representations we have of the concept of force which is either not directly observable or is a metaphysical notion which we find necessary to use«

Tambiah, S.J., 1968. The Magical Power of Words. Man 3, 175. https://doi.org/10.2307/2798500

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Signspiel • 1
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2019/04/17/signspiel-1/

All sorts of players have given us all sorts of spiel about speech acts over the years but Peirce stands out from the chorus in giving us models of semiotic processes whose generation by triadic sign relations allows them to maintain a constant relation among signs, their active interpretants in conduct, and their ultimate pragmata, the objects and objectives of the whole action. Shy of that, the spielerei of Austin and Wittgenstein simply never gets off the ground.

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