(1) Agents perform illocutionary acts such as asserting, promising, and commanding. (2) Illocutionary acts are count-generated by locutionary acts. But locutionary acts are not sufficient for the count-generation to occur; there must be something else that explains why it occurs. (3) It is an agent’s having the rights, responsibilities, and obligations of being a speaker that explains (at least in part) why the count-generation of illocutionary acts occurs. (4) So, agents have the rights, responsibilities, and obligations of being a speaker. (5) If an agent has the rights, responsibilities,
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