Croatian Journal of Philosophy

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.