…if moral language belongs to the genus ‘prescriptive language’, we shall most easily understand its nature if we compare and contrast first of all prescriptive language with other sorts of language, and then moral language with other sorts of prescriptive language.
I shall therefore follow the grammarians and use the single term ‘command’ to cover all these sorts of thing that sentences in the imperative mood express, and within the class of commands make only some very broad distinctions. For the same reason I shall use the word ‘statement’ to cover whatever is expressed by typical indicative sentences, if there be such. (查看原文)
Thus we may characterize provisionally the difference between statements and commands by saying that, whereas sincerely assenting to the former involves believing something, sincerely assenting to the latter involves (on the appropriate occasion and if it is within our power), doing something. (查看原文)
J.T.
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