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- noun The quality of being
assertable .
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Examples
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Of course, there is some controversy as to how these correctness conditions are to be construed, whether the basic notion of semantic correctness is that of truth or warranted assertability, for instance.
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The proposal of the straight rule goes back to the problem of assertability of probability claims he discussed in his thesis.
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Second, Adam Leite (2007) argues that the direct argument for contextualism from the knowledge account of assertion rests on an equivocation on the notion of ˜warranted assertability™.
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In short: The knowledge account of assertion together with the context sensitivity of assertability ¦ yields contextualism about knowledge.
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Note the form of the translation here, or similarly that of the standard rendering of the negative catuskoti that “it profits not” to assert Φ, to assert ¬Φ, to assert both Φ and ¬Φ, or to assert neither Φ nor ¬Φ: the relevant negation can be taken to operate over an implicit modal, in particular an epistemic or assertability operator.
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Jackson claims that our intuitions are at fault here: we confuse preservation of truth and preservation of assertability (1987, pp. 50-1).
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Thus, assertability goes by conditional probability.
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The aim of all such explanations is to make truth something more than what Dewey called Warranted assertability ': more than what our peers will, ceteris paribus, let us get away with saying.
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B ", i.e." ~A or B "; but it is part of its meaning that it is governed by a special rule of assertability.
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Its meaning is not given by an "assertability condition".)
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