Volume 11, Issue 2, 2011
Special Session on Mark Richard’s When Truth Gives Out
Mark Richard
Pages 143-147
Precis of When Truth Gives Out
When Truth Gives Out discusses some of the relations between performative and expressive aspects of language and those aspects of language that determine truth conditions. Among the topics it takes up are slurring speech, the ‘Frege-Geach’ objection to expressivism, vagueness, and relativism. It develops an alternative to standard truth conditional semantics, one based on the notion of a commitment.