Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.

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Prior to Austin the attention of linguistic and analytic philosophers had been directed almost exclusively to statements assertions and propositions — to linguistic acts that (at least in theory) have truth-value. John Langshaw "J. " Austin (26 March 1911 – 8 February 1960) was a British philosopher of language.