I was confused for a while by trying to understand why invitations that are self-referential. It wasn’t until I read the inspirational post that I realized that you are referring to is the word “hereby.”
I guess I could have used that to be explicit, despite it being implicitly stated.
Hat tip to Ben Pace for pointing out that invitations are often self-referential, such as when people say “You are hereby invited”, because “hereby” means “by this utterance”:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rrpnEDpLPxsmmsLzs/open-technical-problem-a-quinean-proof-of-loeb-s-theorem-for?commentId=CFvfaWGzJjnMP8FCa
That comment was like 25% of my inspiration for this post :)
I was confused for a while by trying to understand why invitations that are self-referential. It wasn’t until I read the inspirational post that I realized that you are referring to is the word “hereby.”
I guess I could have used that to be explicit, despite it being implicitly stated.
Thanks! Added a note to the OP explaining that hereby means “by this utterance”.