This sentence is an exception, but there aren’t a lot of naturally occurring examples.
No strong claim either way, but as a datapoint I do somewhat often use the phrase “I hereby invite you to <event>” or “I hereby <request> something of you” to help move from ‘describing the world’ to ‘issuing an invitation/command/etc’.
True! “Hereby” covers a solid contingent of self-referential sentences. I wonder if there’s a “hereby” construction that would make the self-referential sentence Ψ (from the Wikipedia poof) more common-sense-meaningful to, say, lawyers.
No strong claim either way, but as a datapoint I do somewhat often use the phrase “I hereby invite you to <event>” or “I hereby <request> something of you” to help move from ‘describing the world’ to ‘issuing an invitation/command/etc’.
True! “Hereby” covers a solid contingent of self-referential sentences. I wonder if there’s a “hereby” construction that would make the self-referential sentence Ψ (from the Wikipedia poof) more common-sense-meaningful to, say, lawyers.