Abstract

The Knowledge Account of Assertion (KAA) has received added support recently from data on prompting assertion (Turri 2010) and from a refinement suggesting that assertions ought to express knowledge (Turri 2011). This article adds another argument from parenthetical positioning, and then argues that KAA's unified explanation of some of the earliest data adduced in its favour recommends KAA over its rivals.

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