On commitment to untruthful implicatures

Abstract In the current debate on lying-misleading distinction, many theorists distinguish between lying as insincere assertion and misleading through conveying an untruthful implicature. There is growing empirical evidence that average speakers count implicatures cases of lying. What matters for them (degree) commitment to Since conversational may arise with non-assertions, presuppositions are also judged lying, a realistic conception should aim at definition it able cover these possibilities. Such conception, which supports traditional assumptions about semantics-pragmatics leads commitment-based recently proposed by number authors.