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Assertion and Denial, Commitment and Entitlement, and Incompatibility (and some consequence)

“Assertion and Denial, Commitment and Entitlement, and Incompatibility (and some consequence),” Studies in Logic 1 (2008), 26–36.

In this short paper, I compare and contrast the kind of symmetricalist treatment of negation favoured in different ways by Huw Price (in “Why ‘Not’?”) and by me (in “Multiple Conclusions”) with Robert Brandom’s analysis of scorekeeping in terms of commitment, entitlement and incompatibility.

Both kinds of account provide a way to distinguish the inferential significance of ”A” and ”A is warranted” in terms of a subtler analysis of our practices: on the one hand, we assert as well as deny; on the other, by distingushing downstream commitments from upstream entitlements and the incompatibility definable in terms of these. In this note I will examine the connections between these different approaches.

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Author: Greg Restall
Status: Published in 2008

Local file: adcei.pdf (167KB)

Subjects: assertion entailment intuitionistic logic negation proofs sequents

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In Ersilia, to establish the links underlying the city life, people stretch strings across the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they stand for a relationship of blood, trade, authority, agency. When the strings are so many that one cannot pass through them any longer, people leave. The houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain.
— Italo Calvino Le citta' invisibili.