Assertion and its many norms

• Main Author: WILLIAMS, John N.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: assertion; speech acts; norms; knowledge; belief; intention; Modern Languages; Theory, Knowledge and Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2415; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3672/viewcontent/2317_630X_man_40_04_39.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Timothy Williamson offers the ordinary practice, the lottery and the Moorean argument for the ‘knowledge account’ that assertion is the only speech-act that is governed by the single ‘knowledge rule’ or norm, that one must know its content. I show that the emptiness of the knowledge account renders...