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    It is not the case that Omissive Moorean sentences are self-defeating despite potentially being true

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    • 1.Williamson's knowledge norm of assertion is contested by belief-norm theorists like Weiner, who hold that sincere assertion requires only belief, not knowledge.
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    • 2.Under a belief norm, omissive Moorean sentences like 'P, but I don't believe P' are self-defeating because they violate sincerity, not because assertion implies belief in a normative sense that generates a contradiction.
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    • 3.This locates the defect in insincerity rather than logical self-defeat, undermining the claim that such sentences are self-defeating as a structural feature of assertion itself.
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    • 1.Gricean conversational implicatures are cancellable, meaning the implied belief-claim can be explicitly withdrawn without contradiction.
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    • 2.If the implicature in omissive Moorean sentences is cancellable, the assertion is pragmatically awkward but not logically self-defeating.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Asserting a proposition implies that the speaker believes what she asserts
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    • 2.Omissive Moorean sentences assert a proposition while implying the speaker does not believe it
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    • 3.This creates a contradiction between what is asserted and what is implied by the assertion
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