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It should explain the absurdity of both the omissive and the commissive versions.

It would create an enormous ethical and legal foundation for legalizing commissive or active euthanasia.

It could easily lead to both involuntary euthanasia and commissive euthanasia.

Commissive modality (the speaker's commitment to do something, like a promise or threat): "I shall help you."

Philosophers nowadays refer to these, respectively, as the omissive and commissive versions of Moore's paradox.

However, the primary focus of the committee's deliberations, and of the testimony presented to the committee, was what I have termed commissive euthanasia.

I suggest the terms, "omissive" euthanasia and "commissive" euthanasia.

These structures are respectively enabled by the repetition over time of behavior consistent with instructive, hierarchichal, and commissive rules by agents.

TheMail denounced the failure to rule the seas as supreme treachery, and demanded the impeachment of the saboteurs, omissive and commissive.

It may, however, be possible to prove an attempted omission since all the preparatory steps are presumably commissive in building up to the situation in which the defendant will fail to act.

Three types of speech act (instructive, hierarchichal, commissive) yield corresponding types of rule that, in turn, yield three types of rule (hegemony, hierarchy, heteronomy).

Additionally, "left hemisphere lesions result in an omissive response bias or error pattern whereas right hemisphere lesions result in a commissive response bias or error pattern."

On page 87 of the report, the minority of the Committee that favor legalizing voluntary (commissive) euthanasia appear to take the view that omissions leading to death are morally equivalent, or at least similar, to euthanasia via lethal measures.

Commissive rules create obligations for agents that would otherwise not exist: when an agents utters the locution 'I promise to make tariff cuts', such a statement can only exist in and through language and may be converted into a general rule.

Accordingly what someone asserts when they assert "p and I believe that not-p" is just "p and not-p" Asserting the commissive version of Moore's sentences is again assimilated to the more familiar (putative) impropriety of asserting a contradiction.

Whatever version of this view is preferred, whether cast in terms of the Gricean intentions (see Paul Grice) or in terms of the structure of Searlean illocutionary acts (see speech act), it does not obviously apply to explaining the absurdity of the commissive version of Moore's paradox.