Conversational Score, Assertion, and Testimony *
Conversational Score, Assertion, and Testimony *
This chapter first examines Stalnaker's and Lewis's notions of conversational score and offer a simplified notion that takes its inspiration in Stalnaker's earlier work on presupposition. The chapter then attempts to characterize the speech-act of assertion within this framework in such a way that there remains a difference between informatively presupposing and asserting. Finally the chapter explains how, on this model, people can come to acquire beliefs and justification for those beliefs as a result of linguistic exchange.
Keywords: assertion, presupposition, testimony, context, conversational score, Robert Stalnaker, David Lewis
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