A Pragmatic Logic for Commands

The purpose of this essay is to both discuss commands as a species of speech act and to discuss commands within the broader framework of how they are used and reacted to.

The justification , in the logic of commands of this essay , is based on a missing premiss : the addressee obeys ( or ... it ) if it 107 does not contradict the first command ; that is to say , only if its mooted action ' A ' is legal .