What Is Assertion

作者: John MacFarlane

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摘要: To assert something is to perform a certain kind of act. This act different in both from other speech acts, like questions, requests, commands, promises, and apologies, acts that are not toast buttering inarticulate yodeling. My question, then this: what features an qualify it as assertion, one these kinds act? focus on particular example: uttering “Bill will close the window,” might be practicing English pronunciation, asserting Bill window, or requesting window. What makes case doing another?

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