PHL145H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Paul Grice, Implicature, Soundness
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Explanatory argument: reasons why something happened: justicatory argument: reasons to believe or disbelieve some claim, syntax and semantics: syntatic rules (grammar), semantic rules (definitions, linguistic act: an act of saying something meaningful in a language. Basic act that is needed to make anything part of language. (concerns syntax and semantics: speech act: concerns the move a person makes in saying something. Different kinds of speech acts are indicated by the various verbs found in explicit performatives. (insult someone. I ____ you: performative: you do something by saying something in the sentence. I do you"re out i object : explicit performative: can be plugged into i ___, i thereby ____, conversational act: a speaker"s act of causing a standard kind of effect in the listener. It is what i do by saying something (i persuade someone to do something: cooperation, the gricean maxims, implicature, flouting, reason marker: indicates that the following statements are reasons.
