Scorekeeping
Peer reviewed, Journal article
Accepted version
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https://hdl.handle.net/1956/22094Utgivelsesdato
2018Metadata
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- Department of Philosophy [266]
Originalversjon
https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anx145Sammendrag
An influential suggestion from David Lewis is that we should think of assertions in terms of how they affect the conversational score. This note outlines a way to model conversational scores in such a way that two assertoric effects are brought together: that to assert is to propose to add information to the common ground, and that to assert is to undertake commitments. Rather than being seen as rivals, they should be viewed as complementary descriptions of our practises of making assertions.