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...
| Published in: | Philosophical Investigations Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 221 - 240 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2023
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