PHL137 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Election 2, Language Game, Association Football
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Week 11, lecture 1: argument as a language game. Treat argument as a language game to manage fallacies. This is a philosophical approach to arguments. We treat all meaning and communication as the asking and giving of reasons, and of. It arises out of ideas about the nature of language and communication meeting obligations and commitments that our assertions impose on us. When i make an assertion i am committed to it, in a sense: i incur an obligation to defend that claim and have reasons to defend it. Otherwise i am violating a rule or convention of communication if i cannot defend my assertion. In his view, all language and communication functions are like a series of games with different rules. Communication only works when all those involved understand the rules of the game and are playing by them. This gives us a constructive way to view arguments.
