Article
Reconciling truthfulness and relevance as epistemic and decision-theoretic utility
2022-10-02
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<p>People use language to influence others’ beliefs and actions. Yet models of communication have diverged along these lines, formalizing the speaker’s objective in terms of either the listener’s beliefs or actions. We argue that this divergence lies at the root of a longstanding controversy over the Gricean maxims of truthfulness and relevance. We first bridge the divide by introducing a speaker model which consi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a2af363f-5d79-5567-b385-bb6fb79f3662
- DOI
- 10.31234/osf.io/e9m3j