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When a robber forces a bank clerk to hand over the bank’s cash, we have to do with a form of what we call human interaction. An agent, the robber, acts with an intention vis-à-vis another agent, the bank clerk, so that the latter as a result thereof performs another action. However, our instance exemplifies only one of many different types of interaction. There are in everyday language, as well as in the languages of social science, a large number of names of other types of interaction. Among these are, for example, threat, warning, persuasion, advice, recommendation and information. These concepts are of central importance for the description of social reality and there is a great theoretical need that they should be analysed and related to one another.
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Nordenfelt, L. (2000). On the Logical Form of Interaction. In: Action, Ability and Health. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9361-8_6
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