Tomasz Puczyłowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 5979094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomasz Puczyłowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomasz |
| FAMILY NAME | Puczyłowski |
| SIGNATURE | PUCZYŁOWSKI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8294-4811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Why a Gricean-style defense of the vacuous truth of counterpossibles won’t work, but a defense based on heuristics just might
Counterpossibles are counterfactuals with an impossible antecedent. According to the orthodox view of counterfactuals, all counterpossibles are vacuously true. This is puzzling because some counterpossible statements seem to be false. The paper analyzes two approaches to explaining why certain counterpossibles, though perhaps true, may appear to be false. The first, which appeals to the Gricean mechanism of conversational implicatures, asserts th…
A Taxonomy of Noncanonical Uses of Interrogatives
The aims of this paper are (i) to provide a detailed taxonomy of noncanonical uses of interrogative sentences, i.e. when they are used not to ask a question but to convey some information, or to ask a question albeit not that expressed by the interrogative sentence exploited in the act, (ii) to identify properties of circumstances where an interrogative sentence is being used in this way, and (iii) to propose some maxims that govern the rational …
Fictional names, their use and pragmatic interpretations
The aim of the paper is to defend the view according to which all simple fictional sentences are meaningless. If their assertions seem to convey some truth evaluable information, and fictional sentences themselves seem to be true or false, it is because some pragmatic mechanisms are operative, enabling the expression of propositions not encoded in the semantic content of these sentences. According to some theorists, the mechanisms responsible for…
O implikaturach konwersacyjnych pytań
This article explores the connection between questions and conversational implicatures. We put forward a theoretical argument to the effect that questions can contain such implicatures. We also present extensive empirical material that confirms this hypothesis. The article focuses on a class of utterances used simultaneously to express an epistemic stance toward a state of affairs stated in a subordinate clause and to receive a response from an i…
The intent to lie
In this paper, we propose a definition of the intention of lying as well as other communication intentions and finally we define what a lie is. We present these results in a set-theory terminology applied to the notions derived from Grice's (and partly formalized by Gazdar) analyses of conversational implicatures and Tokarz's ideas of formalizing performative utterances. We examine a few examples in order to differentiate between our proposals an…
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The intent to lie
In this paper, we propose a definition of the intention of lying as well as other communication intentions and finally we define what a lie is. We present these results in a set-theory terminology applied to the notions derived from Grice's (and partly formalized by Gazdar) analyses of conversational implicatures and Tokarz's ideas of formalizing performative utterances. We examine a few examples in order to differentiate between our proposals an…
O implikaturach konwersacyjnych pytań
This article explores the connection between questions and conversational implicatures. We put forward a theoretical argument to the effect that questions can contain such implicatures. We also present extensive empirical material that confirms this hypothesis. The article focuses on a class of utterances used simultaneously to express an epistemic stance toward a state of affairs stated in a subordinate clause and to receive a response from an i…
Fictional names, their use and pragmatic interpretations
The aim of the paper is to defend the view according to which all simple fictional sentences are meaningless. If their assertions seem to convey some truth evaluable information, and fictional sentences themselves seem to be true or false, it is because some pragmatic mechanisms are operative, enabling the expression of propositions not encoded in the semantic content of these sentences. According to some theorists, the mechanisms responsible for…
A Taxonomy of Noncanonical Uses of Interrogatives
The aims of this paper are (i) to provide a detailed taxonomy of noncanonical uses of interrogative sentences, i.e. when they are used not to ask a question but to convey some information, or to ask a question albeit not that expressed by the interrogative sentence exploited in the act, (ii) to identify properties of circumstances where an interrogative sentence is being used in this way, and (iii) to propose some maxims that govern the rational …
Why a Gricean-style defense of the vacuous truth of counterpossibles won’t work, but a defense based on heuristics just might
Counterpossibles are counterfactuals with an impossible antecedent. According to the orthodox view of counterfactuals, all counterpossibles are vacuously true. This is puzzling because some counterpossible statements seem to be false. The paper analyzes two approaches to explaining why certain counterpossibles, though perhaps true, may appear to be false. The first, which appeals to the Gricean mechanism of conversational implicatures, asserts th…
Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Assertion (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation (2 works) · Performative utterance (2 works)