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Strawson holds that a similar analysis is applicable to all speech acts, not just illocutionary ones: " To say a statement is true is not to make a statement about a statement, but rather to perform the act of agreeing with, accepting, or endorsing a statement.

When one says ' It's true that it's raining ,' one asserts no more than ' It's raining.

' The function of statement ' It's true that ...' is to agree with, accept, or endorse the statement that ' it's raining.

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