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Speech Acts: Natural or Normative Kinds? The Case of Assertion

Author(s) -

BALL BRIAN

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

mind and language

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905

H-Index - 68

eISSN - 1468-0017

pISSN - 0268-1064

DOI - 10.1111/mila.12054

Subject(s) - assertion , normative , natural (archaeology) , norm (philosophy) , epistemology , speech act , term (time) , psychology , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , history , archaeology , programming language , physics , quantum mechanics

There are two views of the essences of speech acts: according to one view, they are natural kinds ; according to the other, they are what I call normative kinds —kinds in the (possibly non‐reductive) definition of which some normative term occurs. In this article I show that speech acts can be normative but also natural kinds by deriving Williamson's account of assertion, on which it is an act individuated, and constitutively governed, by a norm (the knowledge rule), from a consideration of the natural characteristics of normal cases of its performance.

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