The Pragmatics of Insensitive Assessments

<p>In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance. However, the debate about assessor-relativism about epistemic modals, predicates of taste, gradable adjectives and...

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Main Authors: Alexander Almér, Gunnar Björnsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2010-12-01
Series:The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4148/biyclc.v6i0.1562