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Social Situations and Which Descriptions

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In this paper, I approach Venturinha’s ideas on contextual epistemology from the perspective of linguistic practices of argumentation. I point to the “thick” descriptions of social situations as a common… Click to show full abstract

In this paper, I approach Venturinha’s ideas on contextual epistemology from the perspective of linguistic practices of argumentation. I point to the “thick” descriptions of social situations as a common context in which our epistemic language-games take place. In this way, I explore promising connections of Venturinha’s work to key concepts in recent speech act theory, social ontology and social epistemology.

Keywords: situations descriptions; ontology; descriptions social; social situations; epistemology

Journal Title: Logos and Episteme
Year Published: 2020

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