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The Reasonable Score
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Brown, Stephen W.
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Year and Degree
2009, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Philosophy.
Abstract
Current research in contextualist semantics has not adequately dealt with cases where parties to a conversation unwittingly disagree about certain contextual parameters. David Lewis has suggested that there is a set of values for various contextual parameters in all conversations called a conversational score, where the course of the conversation affects what enters into the conversational score, and in turn, the conversational score affects the course of the conversation. The question remains, however: what enters into the conversational score, and how? I propose to answer this question by appeal to a notion of “reasonable score”: A value for a given contextual parameter enters the score if a reasonably prudent person would say that that value enters the score. I draw on Anglo-America common law as source to clarify this seemingly vague concept of reasonableness.
Committee
Christopher Gauker, PhD (Advisor)
Jenefer Robinson, PhD (Committee Member)
Robert Skipper, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
76 p.
Keywords
Descartes
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contextual parameters
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utterances
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Brown, S. W. (2009).
The Reasonable Score
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1244162438
APA Style (7th edition)
Brown, Stephen.
The Reasonable Score.
2009. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1244162438.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Brown, Stephen. "The Reasonable Score." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1244162438
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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