In defense of assertion

• Autores: Brian Montgomery
• Localización: Philosophical Studies, ISSN-e 1573-0883, Vol. 171, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 313-326
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • Herman Cappelen has recently argued in favor of what he calls �the no assertion view�, where the putative speech act is replaced with Paul Grice�s category of �sayings�. To make his case, Cappelen produces four arguments against Timothy Williamson�s normative view of assertion, holding that the same arguments can be used mutatis mutandis against other non-normative views of assertion. In this paper I examine all four of Cappelen�s arguments against normative theories of assertion, and conclude that they fail.