Has anybody out there defended the position that there are three and only three truth-values? (Those values being: false, both true and false, and neither true nor false but in some sense kinda false.)
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If the goal is to analyze political speech (esp. Trump), why not analyze a single sentence as engaging in two speech acts? There is the assertion, which is clearly false, and (in Searle’s classification) a commissive/expressive, which is true.
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Yes! This is how David Beaver and I analyze things in our forthcoming book The Politics of Language.
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Nice!
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