%0 Journal Article
%T Being a Correct Presumption vs. Being Presumably the Case
%A Lilian Bermejo-Luque
%J -
%D 2016
%R https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v36i1.4294
%X Abstract I argue for the distinction between presuming that p and maintaining that presumably p. In order to make sense of this distinction, I defend a non-inferentialist conception of presumptions and offer an account of the correctness conditions for both presumptions and presumptive inferences. I characterize presumptions as a type of constative speech-act having certain semantic correctness conditions. In turn, regarding presumptive inferences, my strategy is to provide the correctness conditions for the use of an epistemic modal such as ˇ°presumably.ˇ± This epistemic modal is characterized as a force indicator for speech-acts of concluding in complex speech-acts of arguing involving presumptive inferences
%U https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/4294