Assertion, Context, and Epistemic Accessibility

In his seminal paper 'Assertion', Robert Stalnaker distinguishes between the semantic content of a sentence on an occasion of use and the content asserted by an utterance of that sentence on that occasion. While in general the assertoric content of an utterance is simply its semantic conte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hawthorne, J, Magidor, O
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009