Challenging non-at-issue contents

How hard can it be

Bibliographic Data

ID10810977
AuthorsTodd Sanders (0000-0002-0880-8843, University of Duisburg-Essen, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume205
Issue6
Publication date2025-06-04
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSynthese (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0039-7857 • E-ISSN: 1573-0964
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11229-025-05065-9
OpenAlexW4411027816
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited47

This paper is a critique of what has become a widespread view of non-at-issue (NAI) contents. On this view, NAI contents are particularly well suited as instruments of manipulation since they are especially difficult to challenge and have a direct effect on the common ground. I argue by contrast, first, that challenging NAI contents is not significantly harder than challenging asserted contents. And second, I show that asserted and NAI contents have much the same effect on the common ground

Epistemology · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of science · Philosophy of technology · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation · Philosophy

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