Analysis Advance Access published online on October 9, 2009
Analysis, doi:10.1093/analys/anp134
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Rejection and valuations
University of Cambridge Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK li216@cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK ps218@cam.ac.uk
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Timothy Smiley's wonderful paper Rejection (1996) is still perhaps not as well known or well understood as it should be. This note first gives a quick presentation of themes from that paper, though done in our own way, and then considers a putative line of objection – recently advanced by Julien Murzi and Ole Hjortland (2009) – to one of Smiley's key claims. Along the way, we consider the prospects for an intuitionistic approach to some of the issues discussed in Smiley's paper.
| 1. The bilateralist framework |
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Imagine a speech community for whom any sentence is explicitly structured into a propositional content clause and a force-indicator. We could imagine that our community has quite a rich repertoire of force-indicators, including markers to indicate sentences whose primary serious uses have imperatival, interrogative and optative force. But we're going to be concentrating on just two of their force-markers, forming a complementary pair – one to mark
| 2. Bilateralism and the Carnap point |
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| 3. Intuitionism and the Carnap point |
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| 4. Can Smiley be Carnapped? |
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