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Chapter 6 - FFAA and the Duty to Believe
from Part II - FFAA
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2021
Summary
Chapter 6 turns to rules of assertion on the hearer side. One of the central aims of this chapter is to argue for one specific such rule which requires hearers believe what is asserted. We argue that in order to make proper sense of testimonial injustice, we must countenance a duty to believe on the part of the hearer. Having looked at some proposals that emerge from recent literature on conversational pressure and found them wanting, we offer a functionalist account of this duty to belief.
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- Sharing KnowledgeA Functionalist Account of Assertion, pp. 118 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021