Why avowals must be assertions.

In Philosophical Investigations §244, Wittgenstein suggests that we understand avowals (first‐person psychological utterances) as manifestations or expressions of the speaker's mental states. An interesting philosophical theory, called expressivism, then develops from this Wittgensteinian idea. Howe...

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Published in:Philosophical Investigations Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 221 - 240
Main Author: Fan, Ning
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Apr2023
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