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Chapter 12 1 Austin took propositional content nearly for granted. He strongly opposed entity theories, so by "locutionary content" he did not mean anything about propositions as things. He merely gestured towards "sense and reference," alluding to Frege but evidently not using "sense" to mean a kind of theoretical entity. Austin was offhand about propositional content because his focus was on the other thing, illocutionary force, which varies independently. 2 In a recent Kudzu comic strip, the preacher Will B. Dunn resists the urging of a liberal parishioner that the Ten Commandments be renamed "The Ten Suggestions." Strawson (1964), Schiffer (1972), and Bach and Harnish (1979) argue convincingly that not all illocutionary force is as purely conventional as that of (1)­(7), the comparatively "pure" performatives with which we began. Some force, that of being an advising or being a question-asking, say, is more a matter