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Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share informati

Presents an account of the speech act of assertion and defends the view that it is answerable to a constitutive norm and is suited to explaining assertions conn

When we make claims to each other, we're asserting. But what does it take to assert well? Do we need to know what we're talking about? This book argues that we

"Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share informat

Assertion is a term frequently used in linguistics and philosophy but rarely defined. This in-depth study surveys and synthesizes a range of philosophical, ling