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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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205523

Attributions of propositional attitude and pragmatic intrusion

Alessandro Capone

pp. 307-319

Abstract

In this chapter I explore connections between my ideas on the non-cancellability of explicatures (in general) and the explicatures of attributions of propositional attitudes. Since I claim that here opacity is created pragmatically through explicatures, the onus is placed on me to show that such explicatures are non-cancellable. In fact, I show that non-cancellability in several places is the consequence of the fact that the explicature is required to make the proposition conveyed logical. Nevertheless, I consider certain cogent objections and I claim that it is the semantics of the discourse that overrides the application of certain pragmatic principles.

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Capone Alessandro (2016) The pragmatics of indirect reports: socio-philosophical considerations. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 307-319

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41078-4_13

Full citation:

Capone Alessandro (2016) Attributions of propositional attitude and pragmatic intrusion, In: The pragmatics of indirect reports, Dordrecht, Springer, 307–319.