Assertoric content, responsibility, and metasemantics

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I argue that assertoric content functions as a means for us to track the responsibilities undertaken by communicators, and distinctively commitments are distinguished being generated directly in virtue of words speaker uses. This raises two questions: (a) Why speakers responsible thus generated? (b) is it important distinguish between terms their manner generation? answer first question developing novel responsibility based metasemantics. second reference conflicting pressures governing resources we have available appraising speech.

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عنوان ژورنال: Mind & Language

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['0268-1064', '1468-0017']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12372