ABSTRACT
Mr Warnock has recently pointed out that the formulation incorporates what, on Austin's own view, is an error in drafting. Part of what Warnock has in mind is clearly an earlier remark of Austin's to the effect that two distinct utterances of the same sentence are utterances of the same statement only if the utterances are made with reference to the same state of affairs. This chapter begins by amending Austin's dictum to meet Warnock's point. The Austin-Warnock view is that one does not know exactly what statement is being made in any case unless one knows what particular historical situation is being referred to. For the expressions 'situation' and 'state of affairs' have, in the present connection, much more natural employments, which are bound to obscure from us the strained sense in which they are being employed in the Austinian formula. The chapter concludes that Austin's formula is really unsatisfactory in all of its distinctive features.
