...This chapter explores how diamonds, like linguistic utterances, are both “in and of the world” and as such, are used performatively. Wearing a diamond can be partly a performative action meant to change the world in some observable way—diamonds do things. These performances take place in a social...

... the need to widen the notion of interpretation from the understanding of linguistic utterances to the understanding of whole persons. In the passages quoted in the course of the last section, we have often seen the notion of belief in combination not only with that of meaning, but also...