Wookiee Statements, Semanticism, and Reasonable Assertion

• Autores: Eduardo García Ramírez
• Localización: Revista de filosofía, ISSN-e 1988-284X, ISSN 0034-8244, Nº 35, 2, 2010, págs. 129-144
• Idioma: inglés
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  • It is assumed that the content of an assertion is determined either by the semantically defined content or by the interaction of the latter with the context. Here I present a counterexample by means of the Wookiee problem. After considering several options I offer what appears to be its most satisfactory solution. This requires that we give up the assumption in favor of a view according to which it may be that semantic information does not at all determine the content of an assertion, not even partly so.