It's for Your Own Good: A Note on Inaccurate Reference.

Abstract

In his book Speech Acts, Searle suggests that his analysis of illocutionary acts can be extended to accounts for the propositional act of reference. He wants to give necessary conditions for a speaker successfully referring to some entity by using a certain referring expression in an utterance to a certain hearer. We point out here some inadequacies in Searle's conditions, in particular how they fail to account for cases of successful reference through expressions which speaker (and hearer) may believe are not true of their intended referent. More specific conditions based on the notion of mutual belief are proposed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA102765

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  • C. Raymond Perrault
  • Philip R. Cohen

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