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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/learning-from-presupposition/
SUMMARY:Learning From Presupposition
DESCRIPTION:Dominic Alford-Duguid (Oxford University) Strawson (1950) famou
 sly distinguishes what a speaker presupposes from  what she asserts in utt
 ering a sentence like &lsquo\;The present King of France  is bald&rsquo\;.
  I defend a claim about presupposition&rsquo\;s epistemic  significance\, 
 namely that presupposition can provide a distinctive  testimony-based way 
 for an audience to learn about the world. My  argument has three parts. I 
 first bring out presupposition&rsquo\;s distinctive  epistemic profile by 
 showing that an audience can learn from a  speaker&rsquo\;s presupposition
 s even when she regards a speaker&rsquo\;s assertion as  resting upon a fa
 lse presupposition. I then use that result to argue  that presupposition p
 rovides a distinctive way for an audience to learn  about the world. Final
 ly\, I motivate the view that when an audience  learns from a speaker&rsqu
 o\;s presuppositions in this way\, she thereby  acquires a testimony-based
  belief.
CATEGORIES:Seminar
LOCATION:Seminari de Filosofia UB
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