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Ideas for 'The Runabout Inference Ticket', 'Penses' and 'Assertion'

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19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric
We only want to know things so that we can talk about them [Pascal]
19. Language / F. Communication / 2. Assertion
An assertion aims to add to the content of a context [Stalnaker, by Magidor]
19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature
An assertion is an attempt to rule out certain possibilities, narrowing things down for good planning [Stalnaker, by Schroeter]