Assertion, Implicature, and Iterated Knowledge

Assertion, Implicature, and Iterated Knowledge

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The present paper argues that there is a knowledge norm for conversational implicature: one may conversationally implicate p only if one knows p.Linguistic data about the cancellation behavior of implicatures and Clothing - Mens Bottoms - Shorts the ways they are challenged and criticized by speakers is presented to support the thesis.The knowledge norm for implicature is then used to present Bike Units - Full Suspension a new consideration in favor of the KK thesis.It is argued that if implicature and assertion have knowledge norms, then assertion requires not only knowledge but iterated knowledge: knowing that you know that you know that.you know.

Such a condition on permissible assertion is argued to be plausible only if the KK thesis is true.