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  2. Felicity (pragmatics) - Wikipedia

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    Propositional content condition: the requested act is a future act of the hearer; Preparatory precondition: 1) the speaker believes the hearer can perform the requested act; 2) it is not obvious that the hearer would perform the requested act without being asked; Sincerity condition: the speaker genuinely wants the hearer to perform the ...

  3. Locutionary act - Wikipedia

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    As an utterance, a locutionary act is considered a performative, in which both the audience and the speaker must trust certain conditions about the speech act. These conditions are called felicity conditions and are divided into three different categories: the essential condition, the sincerity condition, and the preparatory condition.

  4. Speech act - Wikipedia

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    Brisset argues that models perform actions in different fields (scientific, academic, practical, and political). This multiplicity of fields induces a variety of felicity conditions and types of performed actions. This perspective is a criticism of the essentialism of philosophical modelling studies. [42]

  5. Felicific calculus - Wikipedia

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    The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for calculating the degree or amount of pleasure that a specific action is likely to induce.

  6. Felicity conditions - Wikipedia

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  7. Male celebrities who have gone totally nude on social media - AOL

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    Justin Bieber, Darren Criss, John Legend and Tyler Blackburn are among the male stars who have donned their birthday suits in nude social media pictures.

  8. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - Wikipedia

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    "If, in reality, courage and a heart devoted to the good of mankind are the constituents of human felicity, the kindness which is done infers a happiness in the person from whom it proceeds, not in him on whom it is bestowed; and the greatest good which men possessed of fortitude and generosity can procure to their fellow creatures is a ...

  9. Performative utterance - Wikipedia

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    According to Austin, in order to successfully perform an illocutionary act, certain conditions have to be met (e.g. a person who pronounces a marriage must be authorized to do so). [1]: 8 Besides the context, the performative utterance itself is unambiguous as well. The words of an illocutionary act have to be expressed in earnest; if not ...