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Ideas for 'Rationality in Action', 'Theory Change and the Indeterminacy of Reference' and 'Primitive Thisness and Primitive Identity'

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23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 3. Promise Keeping

3838	Promises hold because I give myself a reason, not because it is an institution [Searle]
	Full Idea: The obligation to keep a promise does not derive from the institution of promising, ..but from the fact that in promising I freely and voluntarily create a reason for myself.
	From: John Searle (Rationality in Action [2001], Ch.6.IV)

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 2. Duty

3813	'Ought' implies that there is a reason to do something [Searle]
	Full Idea: To say that someone 'ought' to do something is to imply that there is a reason for him to do it.
	From: John Searle (Rationality in Action [2001], Ch.1.II)