Ed Murphy wrote: >Not sure. Would you see any problems with "To perform an action 'by >announcement' is to announce that one performs it"?
I see a problem with it. It implies that a rule that says "the speaker CAN doff eir hat by announcement" are claiming to control the POSSIBILITY of the speaker announcing "I doff my hat". The announcement must be conceptually distinct from the action that it might achieve. -zefram
