An exercitive is the giving of a decision in favour of or against a certain course of action, or advocacy of it.
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Exercitive
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Exercitives are not so common. Philosopher-authors are rarely in the position to tell people what to do or think.
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The hearer's recognition of the speaker's locutionary intention is also an important felicity condition of Austinian exercitives.
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