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Rpcg Sapp.Pdf, David Alan Sapp, Carroll F. Nardone, Barry Thatcher
Rpcg Sapp.Pdf, David Alan Sapp, Carroll F. Nardone, Barry Thatcher
David Alan Sapp
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Full-On Stating, Robert J. Stainton
Full-On Stating, Robert J. Stainton
Robert J. Stainton
What distinguishes full-on stating a proposition from merely communicating it? For instance, what distinguishes claiming/asserting/saying that one has never smoked crack cocaine from merely implying/conveying/hinting this? The enormous literature on ‘assertion’ provides many approaches to distinguishing stating from, say, asking and commanding: only the former aims at truth; only the former expresses one’s belief; etc. But this leaves my question unanswered, since in merely communicating a proposition one also aims at truth, expresses a belief, etc.
My aim is not to criticize extant accounts of the state-vs.-merely-convey contrast, but rather to draw on clues from Dummett, functional linguistics and moral …