Ignorance and presuppositions

• Autores: Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa
• Localización: Mind, ISSN-e 1460-2113, Vol. 124, Nº. 496, 2015, págs. 1207-1219
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • I develop a class of counterexamples to Blome-Tillmann’s ‘Presuppositional Epistemic Contextualism’ (PEC). There are cases in which subjects are ignorant of key propositions that are inconsistent with the pragmatic presuppositions in conversational contexts in which they are discussed; in such contexts, PEC wrongly predicts the subjects to satisfy certain ‘knows’ attributions