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The '''descriptive fallacy''' refers to reasoning which treats a [[speech act]] as a [[logical proposition]], which would be mistaken when the meaning of the statement is not based on its [[truth condition]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9781405106795_chunk_g97814051067955_ss1-69 |encyclopedia=The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy |title=Descriptive fallacy |editor-first=Nicholas |editor-last=Bunnin |editor2-first=Jiyuan |editor2-last=Yu |year=2004 |isbn=9781405106795}}</ref> It was suggested by the British philosopher of language [[J. L. Austin]] in 1955 in the lectures now known as ''[[How to Do Things With Words]]''. Austin argued that [[performative utterance]]s are not meaningfully evaluated as true or false but rather by other measures, which would hold that a statement such as "thank you" is not meant to describe a fact and to interpret it as such would be to commit the descriptive fallacy.
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