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Norms of logic in language use

It has been noted by a number of authors (e.g. J.L. Austin, W. Sellars) that any utterance effects deontic status of some other utterances of interlocutors. The structure of speaker's commitments and hearer's entitlements has been more fully investigated by J. Searle and D. Vanderveken, R. Brandom, D. Walton and E. Krabbe (to name the most influential researchers). Brandom sees the normative structure of social practice of language use as the fundamental phenomenon that becomes explicit in the logical theory. On the other hand, Searle and Vanderveken take the structure of commitments to speech-acts to be based on underlying psychological structure expressed in those acts. In this talk an alternative thesis will be put forward: the normative structure of language use is neither based on social practice nor on the structure of intentionality, rather it is the logical structure of language that is projected to the normative structure of language use. The congeniality of the alternative thesis with the current approaches in dynamic logic will be addressed. The implications for the theory of imperatives will be drawn.

logic; structure; normativity; intentionality; linguistic commitments

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