You Gotta Believe

Turri, J. (2014). You gotta believe. In C. Littlejohn & J. Turri (Eds.), Epistemic norms: new essays on action, belief and assertion (pp. 193–199). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Proper assertion requires belief. In support of this thesis, I provide an explanatory argument from linguistic patterns surrounding assertion and show how to handle cases of "selfless" assertion.