By Schubert Ogden
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According to McCarthy, Habermas holds that "the obligations immanent to speech acts can be met at two levels: immediately in the context of interactionthrough recourse to experiential certainty \[in the case of constatives\], through indicating the relevant normative background \[in the case of regulatives\], or through the assurance of what is evident to oneself \[in the case of expressivesJorexpressives\] or mediately, either in theoretical or practical discourse \[in the cases of constatives and regulatives respectively\], or in a sequence of consistent action \[in the case of expressives\]" (286). |
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