You gotta believe
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I argue that proper assertion requires belief. Jennifer Lackey has recently argued otherwise. Here I respond to Lackey’s argument and provide positive evidence that permissible assertion does require belief. The positive evidence takes the form of an explanatory argument from linguistic patterns surrounding the give and take of assertion. Looming large in the background of the discussion is whether there is an even more fundamental normative link between assertion and knowledge. Breaking the link between assertion and belief would threaten the normative link between assertion and knowledge. My ultimate motivation in resisting Lackey’s argument is to preserve the link between assertion and knowledge. Increasingly popular nowadays is the knowledge account of assertion (‘the knowledge account’ for short), which in its simplest form says that you may assert P only if you know P. Some have objected * This is the penultimate version of a paper to appear in Epistemic norms: new essays on action, belief and assertion (OUP). Please cite the final, published version if possible. 1 The knowledge account has been defended extensively elsewhere, e.g. Unger 1975, Williamson 2000, DeRose 2002, Hawthorne 2004, Turri 2010, and Turri 2011a Turri 2012a; see also Turri 2010b, Turri 2011b, 2012b, Turri forthcoming. It is beside the point to rehearse the formidable case for the knowledge account here.
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