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        Lying: A Gricean Account

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        Austin, David John Joseph
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        2299/16315
        Abstract
        It is widely assumed that in order to lie, a speaker must at least assert a falsehood. I offer an analysis of lying based on the Gricean notion of communicative-intention and show how lying through assertion operates. I show that certain recently developed assertion-based accounts of lying are either problematic or at least not compelling. In defending an account of lying based on communicative-intention, I show how it is possible to lie in ways which do not involve assertion and how better to accommodate certain problematic cases than competing accounts.
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        2015-08-19
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        https://doi.org/10.18745/th.16315
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        http://hdl.handle.net/2299/16315
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