Asking to Double-Check: A Second-Order Speech Act Account
9 Oct 24 @ 15:00 – 17:00 – Grzegorz Gaszczyk (University of Warsaw)We ask questions to acquire knowledge. This observation has led to the wide endorsement of the Ignorance Norm, which states that we should not ask whether p if we know that p. However, cases of double-checking complicate this picture. When double-checking whether p, we may already know that p but seek […]
