Keeping the Conversational Score : Constraints for an Optimal Contextualist Answer?

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Article

    • Pages : 295 à 314
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    • Support : Electronic document
    • Langues : Anglais
    • Édition : Original
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    • ISSN : 1572-8420-61-2/3
    • DOI : 10.1007/s10670-004-0487-5
    • URL : Lien externe
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    • Date de création : 04-01-2011
    • Dernière mise à jour : 02-06-2011

    Résumé

    Anglais

    Conversational contextualism states that the truth-conditions expressed by knowledge-attributing sentences vary relative to the context of utterance. This context is determined partly by different standards the person involved must meet in order to make the sentence true. I am concerned with the question of how these standards can be raised or lowered, and especially what happens to the standards and the conversational score when parties in a discussion push the conversational scores in different directions. None of the available options for an answer seems satisfying. I argue that this results from a misunderstanding of the characteristics of the situation at hand.

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