Lies, Common Ground and Performative Utterances
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In a recent book (Lying and insincerity, Oxford University Press, 2018), Andreas Stokke argues that one lies iff says something believes to be false, thereby proposing it becomes common ground. This paper shows Stokke’s proposal is unable draw the right distinctions about insincere performative utterances. The objection also has repercussions on theories of assertion, because poses novel challenge any attempt define assertion as update
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Erkenntnis
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0165-0106', '1572-8420']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-020-00368-4