 where the inference is supposedly criterial, and z is the total illocutionary act potential—the potential to perform illocutionary acts I, J, K—that constitutes the meaning of x. The question at issue here is a species of a genus, the genus being whether intending that s is p is criterial evidence for s’s being p, with the differentia being that s is a piece of non-literary discourse and p a meaning, a speech act potential.