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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/implied-assertions/
SUMMARY:Implied Assertions?
DESCRIPTION:Some writers (e.g.\, Alston (2000\, 116-120)\; Jary (2010\, 15-
 16)\; Pagin&rsquo\;s  (2011\, 123)) defend accounts of assertion that impl
 y that this act  cannot be indirectly made\, by requiring that an assertio
 n consists of  the communication of the proposition p by means of a senten
 ce that means  p. I think that this incorrectly makes it definitionally im
 possible to  make assertions of p with sentences that mean something else 
 (or even  with fully non-linguistic means). However\, in (say) asking &lsq
 uo\;Who the heck  wants to read this book?&rsquo\;\, I am intuitively asse
 rting that (to put it  mildly) nobody wants to read it. Aside from direct 
 counterexamples like  this\, we might ask: why would assertion be special\
 , in that it is the  only speech act that cannot be made indirectly? Recen
 tly\, however\, other  writers have advanced arguments that would provide 
 an answer to this  question\, and hence would support views of assertion a
 long the indicated  lines. While Camp (2006) and Lepore and Stone (2010) h
 ave discussed the  arguments for specific cases\, such as metaphorical ass
 ertions\, Green  (2015)\, Fricker (2012) and Lepore and Stone (2015) provi
 de more general  considerations. One is based on the lying/misleading dist
 inction: if  assertions could be done indirectly\, we could not properly d
 istinguish  lying from merely misleading. The second is epistemic: indirec
 tly  conveyed claims would be too ambiguous for the speaker to fully commi
 t  to them in the way constitutive of assertions. The goal of this paper i
 s  to critically examine these arguments\, aiming to establish that  asser
 tions can be indirectly made.
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