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Publication details [#5082]
Isard, Stephen D. and H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins. 1973. Modal tic-tac-toe. In Bogdan, Radu J. and Ilkka Niiniluoto, eds. Logic, language, and probability. Reidel. pp. 189–195.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
I. and L.-H. show that it is impossible to give a satisfactory account of the use of English entirely in terms of any concept that can be called 'truth', because the appropriateness of a natural utterance depends on the states of the speaker and the hearer (i.e. presuppositions, context, etc.).