Open AccessInference Claims as Assertions
Author(s) -
Matthew McKeon
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
informal logic
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2293-734X
pISSN - 0824-2577
DOI - 10.22329/il.v41i3.6844
Subject(s) - implicature , assertion , argument (complex analysis) , inference , normative , core (optical fiber) , epistemology , linguistics , psychology , philosophy , pragmatics , computer science , telecommunications , biochemistry , chemistry , programming language
When a speaker states an argument in arguing—in its core sense—for the conclusion, the speaker asserts, as opposed to merely implies or implicates, the associated inference claim to the effect that the conclusion follows from the premises. In defense of this, I argue that how an inference claim is conveyed when stating an argument is constrained by constitutive and normative conditions for core cases of the speech of arguing for a conclusion. The speech act of assertion better reflects such conditions than does implication, conversational implicature, or conventional implicature.