 The first steps towards a theory of social acts are made by Pfänder and Daubert. In his logic of imperatives (1909), Pfänder theorizes that the logical form of imperatives is different from that of predicative sentences. This provides evidence for the idea that the act of ordering something is not identical to the judgment of having a certain conative experience. Daubert developed extensive considerations about questions around 1911/12 (Schuhmann &amp; Smith 1987; despite his influential role within early phenomenology, Daubert never published a single line in his life and the only sources available to scholars are unpublished manuscripts). In these considerations, he describes various phenomena that are usually collated under the label of “question”, and argues that, among various erotetic phenomena, one in particular should be set apart. While many erotetic phenomena are purely inner phenomena, when one raises a “direct question”, then one addresses the question to somebody else.