Challenging non-at-issue contents: How hard can it be?
This paper is a critique of what has become a widespread view of non-at-issue (NAI) contents. On this view, NAI contents are particularly well suited as instruments of manipulation since they are especially difficult to challenge and have a direct effect on the common ground. I argue by contrast, fi...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 205; no. 6; pp. 1 - 29 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2025
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| Sumario: | This paper is a critique of what has become a widespread view of non-at-issue (NAI) contents. On this view, NAI contents are particularly well suited as instruments of manipulation since they are especially difficult to challenge and have a direct effect on the common ground. I argue by contrast, first, that challenging NAI contents is not significantly harder than challenging asserted contents. And second, I show that asserted and NAI contents have much the same effect on the common ground. |
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