 Our discussion of the possibility of an illocutionary logic answers one question posed at the end of Section 6.3, namely whether it is possible to perform a speech act without intending to do so. This seems likely given Searle and Vanderveken’s definition of strong illocutionary commitment: We need only imagine an agent performing some large number of speech acts, S1, …, Sn−1, which, unbeknownst to her, jointly guarantee that she fulfills the seven conditions defining another speech act Sn. Even in such a case she performs Sn only by virtue of intentionally performing some other set of speech acts S1, …, Sn−1; it is difficult to see how one can perform Sn while having no intention of performing a speech act at all.