2008/7/14 Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For the current case, I think "I act on behalf of myself" is what a > speech act is by definition; whenever we say "I do X" we are implicitly > saying that we are acting on behalf of ourselves. So the pledge is > a tautology, "I act on behalf of myself to do X" simplifies to "I do X" > and the deregistration worked. > > -Goethe
But the pledge obviously redefines it for this case, especially as it was directly preceeding it. It is possible that it would have worked if it were not for the pledge.
