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A philosopher argued that a criterion named for this property “terrorizes” scientific research and proposed the alternative of “paralogy,” or moving “beyond reason.” Herbert Fingarette compared the “magic power” of lǐ to a Western theory of this property in Confucius: The Secular as Sacred. Habermas described postmodern philosophers’ use of modern methods of reasoning as a contradiction with this property. Different theories of how intentionality (-5[1])drives acts with this property, whose opposite is (*) constativity, led to the Searle-Derrida debate. (10[1])Sentences like “I do” and “I name this ship the Queen Elizabeth” (10[1])have this property since they are (10[2])the doing of an illocutionary act. Building on the work of J. L. Austin, a 1990 book analyzed how “subversive bodily acts” establish this property of drag. For 10 points, Judith Butler claimed gender has what property in which meaning is created by behavior? (10[1])■END■

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