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Assertion: Just One Way to Take It Back [PDF]
According to Jonathan Kvanvig, the practice of taking back one’s assertion when finding out that one has been mistaken or gettiered fails to speak in favour of a knowledge norm of assertion.
Simion, Mona
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The Function of Assertion and Social Norms
A proper function of an entity is a beneficial effect that helps explain the persistence of the entity. Proper functions thereby arise through feedback mechanisms with beneficial effects as inputs and persistence as outputs.
P. Graham
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Being in a Position to Know is the Norm of Assertion
This paper defends a new norm of assertion: Assert that p only if you are in a position to know that p. We test the norm by judging its performance in explaining three phenomena that appear jointly inexplicable at first: Moorean paradoxes, lottery ...
Christopher Willard-Kyle
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Autonomy conflicts resolution: theoretical approach to adolescents’ personal autonomy [PDF]
Background. One of theoretical approaches towards developmental tasks in adolescence is the study of personal autonomy. The modern fast-paced world expects adolescents to be independent and proactive.
Natalya V. Gorlova
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Stick to the facts: on the norms of assertion
The view that truth is the norm of assertion has fallen out of fashion. The recent trend has been to think that knowledge is the norm of assertion. Objections to the knowledge view proceed almost exclusively by appeal to alleged counterexamples. While it
Whiting, Daniel, Daniel Whiting
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The Methods of Assertion in the Tafsīr Abi al-Sa'ud= أسلوب التوكيد في تفسير أبي السعود
The concept of assertion has been playing a vital role in the linguistic to specify the meaning and nullify the uncertainties from the sentences. The numerous uses of assertion and its tools in Arabic language also played very significant role in ...
Yahya Khan, Dr. Hafizatullah al-Hafiz
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Truthfully Misleading: Truth, Informativity, and Manipulation in Linguistic Communication
Linguistic communication is geared toward the exchange of information, i.e., changing the addressee's world views. In other words, persuasion is the goal of speakers and the force of the speaker's commitment as indicated in the utterance is an important ...
Anne Reboul
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An Assertion-Based Program Logic for Probabilistic Programs [PDF]
Research on deductive verification of probabilistic programs has considered expectation-based logics, where pre- and post-conditions are real-valued functions on states, and assertion-based logics, where pre- and post-conditions are boolean predicates on
G. Barthe +5 more
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The main purpose of this article is to examine the difference between two concessive constructions in contemporary English: the clause introduced by ALTHOUGH (ALTHOUGH+P) in initial position before the main clause and MAY-BUT.
Stéphane Gresset, Gérard Mélis
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Deeper into Argumentative Bullshit
In a recent paper, José Ángel Gascón extends the Frankfurtian notion of bullshit to the sphere of argumentation. On Frankfurt’s view, the hallmark of bullshit is a lack of concern for the truth of an utterance on the part of the bullshitter.
Nikil Mukerji, Adriano Mannino
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