Affiliation:
1. Departamento de Lógica, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia UNED Madrid Spain
2. Department of Philosophy Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona Spain
Abstract
According to an influential view, asserting a proposition involves undertaking some “commitment” to the truth of that proposition. But accounts of what it is for someone to be committed to the truth of a proposition are often vague or imprecise, and are rarely put to work to define assertion. This article aims to fill this gap. It offers a precise characterisation of assertoric commitment, and applies it to define assertion. On the proposed view, acquiring commitment is not sufficient for asserting: To assert, commitment must be acquired by explicitly presenting a proposition as true.
Funder
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
Comunidad de Madrid
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Philosophy,Language and Linguistics