 One source of discussion are the issues surrounding promisees that are somehow different from the paradigm promisee. The paradigm promisee is aware of the promise, acknowledges and confirms the promissory arrangement, welcomes or at least doesn’t spurn the promised act and expects and/or relies on its execution or the subsequent state of affairs. In the literature these are called “uptake” conditions (the term was coined by Thomson [1990: 301]).