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Modern generative AI systems have shown the capacity to produce remarkably fluent language, prompting debates both about their semantic understanding and, less prominently, about whether they can perform speech acts.
Emanuel Viebahn, Patrick Butlin
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Theories of assertion must explain how silencing is possible. This chapter defends an account of assertion in terms of normative commitments on the grounds that it provides the most plausible analysis of how individuals might be silenced when attempting to make assertions.
A. Tanesini
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AbstractIn this paper, I introduce a puzzle about moral assertion and defend a solution that centrally features the claim that the normativity of moral assertion centrally features moral understanding.
Kelp, Christoph
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Assertion: A Function First Account (epub ahead of print) [PDF]
This paper aims to develop a novel account of the normativity of assertion. Its core thesis is that assertion has an etiological epistemic function, viz. to generate knowledge in hearers. In conjunction with a general account of etiological functions and
Christoph Kelp
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Assertion: The Constitutive Norms View
Two important philosophical questions about assertion concern its nature and normativity. This article defends the optimism about the constitutive norm account of assertion and sets out a constitutivity thesis that is much more modest than that proposed ...
M. Simion, Christoph Kelp
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An Analysis and Study of Fakhr Razi’s and Khwaja Nasir Tusi’s Theory Regarding Notion and Assertion [PDF]
The division of knowledge into “notion” and “assertion” is one of the foundational discussions. Knowledge, in its general sense, is divided into knowledge-by-presence and acquired knowledge.
Ali AllahDadi Hazaveh +1 more
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A3Test: Assertion-Augmented Automated Test Case Generation [PDF]
Test case generation is an important activity, yet a time-consuming and laborious task. Recently, AthenaTest -- a deep learning approach for generating unit test cases -- is proposed. However, AthenaTest can generate less than one-fifth of the test cases
Saranya Alagarsamy +2 more
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The norm of assertion and blame [PDF]
One of the most popular suggestions for the norm of assertion is the knowledge norm: one is in a good enough epistemic position to assert that p if and only if one knows that p.
Brown, Jessica Anne
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Quantitative analysis of assertion violations in probabilistic programs [PDF]
We consider the fundamental problem of deriving quantitative bounds on the probability that a given assertion is violated in a probabilistic program.
Jinyi Wang +4 more
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Is there an illocutionary act of assertion? [PDF]
This contribution analyzes Cappelen's No-Assertion view arguing that, although appealing, the No-Assertion view is based on a questionable premise, namely, that assertions are sayings.
Mariya Chankova
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