The phrase "a utterance of" is not correct.
It should be "an utterance of." You can use it when referring to a specific spoken or written expression or statement made by someone.
Example: "The speaker's utterance of the phrase left the audience in deep thought."
Alternatives: "a statement of" or "an expression of."
Extra-linguistic context determines what way of grasping (what Crimmins and Perry call an idea) an utterance of a propositional attitude ascribing sentence makes implicit reference to.
We may also define a performative utterance as an utterance of a performative sentence that is also a speech act.[4] More nomenclature: 'Speech act' and 'illocution' will here be used synonymously.
On the Fregean view, what is essential to the thought or proposition expressed by an utterance of a sentence containing a singular term is its sense, not its reference.
It is well and fine to say that a propositional attitude report involves an utterance of an embedded sentence which samesays something that that the subject of the report bears the appropriate relation to.
What makes an utterance of a sentence in the indicative mood a prediction rather than a command, for instance, is that it manifests an intention to be so taken; likewise for promises rather than predictions.
It should be noted that a declaration does not always have to be an utterance of a specific form.
Perry (2009, p. 60) argues that the referent of an utterance of a demonstrative is the object of a directing intention, and offers a rather elaborate theory of directing intentions that is inspired by some brief remarks from Kaplan.
The character of I is simply a function that associates an utterance of I in a particular context with the individual who makes that utterance in that context.
Character/Content Since Kaplan's work on indexicals and demonstratives, (Kaplan 1989) it is commonplace to distinguish between the character of an expression and the content of an utterance of an expression.
The lawn chair on the deck is not the kind of thing that can be accurate or inaccurate (though it may figure in the accuracy conditions of an utterance, such as an utterance of "that is a lawn chair").
A case in point would be an utterance of (8) in response to a request for information about Apollo in an exam on Greek mythology.
