The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

If you can't say it clearly, you don't understand it yourself

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean that but also to mean something else.

"Akrasia" [weakness of will] in rational beings is as common as wine in France.

We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it.