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Assertion: New Philosophical Essays

Jessica Brown, Herman Cappelen

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Introduction PART 1. WHAT IS AN ASSERTION? 1. Against Assertion 2. Conversational Score, Assertion and Testimony 3. What is Assertion? 4. Information and Assertoric Force 5. The Essential Contextual PART 2. EPISTEMIC NORMS OF ASSERTION 6. Fallibilism and the Knowledge Norm for Assertion and Practical Reasoning 7. Putting the Norm of Assertion to Work: the Case of Testimony 8. Truth-Relativism, Norm-Relativism and Assertion 9. Norms of Assertion 10. Assertion and Isolated Secondhand Knowledge 11. Assertion, Norms, and Games

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Key concepts: Assertion, Norm (philosophy), Epistemology, Relativism, Psychology, Philosophy, Computer science, Programming language