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might even be in some way vital to our way of life. The things the players
in these various games have done may have significance in some sense, but
nobody has made any assertions or asked anything or advised anyone to do
anything.
Inferentialism
At this point it is tempting to make some serious concession to the Referential
Theory. But that would be to overlook the most recent incarnation of Sellars'
Inferential Theory: Brandom (1994), a 700-page monsterpiece, which at least
has the potential for evading some of the foregoing objections. Brandom
develops a particular conception of "use," a normative conception accord-
ing to which a sentence's use is the set of commitments and entitlements
associated with public utterance of that sentence. His paradigm is that of
asserting, considered as an actual social act: when one utters a sentence and
thereby makes an assertion, one is committing oneself to defend that asser-
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