On what is said: Logic and Lies

Abstract While ordinary usage of saying allows both extensional and intensional interpreta-tions, only the extensional interpretation of Grice’s what is said is useful to a theory of lying. Yet what is said cannot be reduced to conventional meaning, for it obeys a Closure Principle: if one says something, one also says everything entailed by it.

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Analysis
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2026-05-01
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https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anag027
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Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
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On what is said: Logic and Lies

Giorgio Sbardolini
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Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
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On what is said: Logic and Lies

Giorgio Sbardolini
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Abstract While ordinary usage of saying allows both extensional and intensional interpreta-tions, only the extensional interpretation of Grice’s what is said is useful to a theory of lying. Yet what is said cannot be reduced to conventional meaning, for it obeys a Closure Principle: if one says something, one also says everything entailed by it.

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Institute of Philosophy (RU)
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Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
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