abstentions 8
accuracy 8, 46, 47, 56, 82, 83
adaptive behavioral traits 78, 81
affirmation 26
aggressiveness 9, 22, 23, 24, 33, 80
agreement ratings 15, 16, 54, 58, 72
analytic epistemology 76
ancient skeptics 2
animal
behavior 4
apparent evidence 42
assertability judgments 12, 14, 15, 57, 64
assertion under oath 26
assurance 25
audiocentric responses. See listener-centered responses
Augustine 35
authority 8, 9, 10, 20, 24, 27, 33, 62
background assumptions 27
behavioral ecology 88
biconditionals 50
blameless rule-breaking. See excuse validation
blame validation 45
calculation 28
causal modeling 37
causal structure 44
certainty 58
challenges 2, 8, 9, 20, 24, 33, 49, 56, 64
cheap barn cases 43
child psychology. See developmental psychology
cognitive psychology 11
commands 52
communicative intent 27
complexity 5
concurrent restrictions 62, 64
conjunctions 9
continuity of philosophy and science 3, 88
controversial assumptions 76
conventional
signals 80
counterexamples 51, 56, 61, 67, 68, 69
creationism 54
credibility 29
criticism 66
cues 78
data 4. See experimental data, observational data, pre-theoretic data
deception. See lying
decisions 68, 69, 71, 72, 75, 76, 77
declarative sentence 2
definite propositions 52
demonstration. See instruction
deontological rule 62
developmental psychology 10, 55, 83
disunified responses 57
empirical research 3
entitlement 27
environmental threat 41
epistemic
state 8
status 57
escalation 9
ethogram 4
evaluative judgments 40, 50, 57, 64, 69, 71, 72, 74
evolutionary
biology 88
theory 54
exceptionless standards 75
excuse validation 47
experimental
data 11, 40, 43, 54, 57, 58, 69, 70, 72, 73
research 4
science 88
explanation 16, 31, 32, 33, 34, 42, 50, 75, 76, 77
express knowledge account of assertion 17
factive norms 12, 13, 69, 70, 71
fairness 46
fallible evidence 42
false assertions 50
Franklin, Benjamin 87
general conversational mechanisms 27
Gettier
Edmund 41
Gettiered
assertions 41
beliefs 41
Hempel, Carl 34
honest signals. See signaling
honesty guarantees 79
human
civilization 21
condition 61
ignorant assertions 39, 41, 82
inconsistency 9, 10, 24, 33, 51
inducing belief 20
inference 28
information 21, 73, 77, 78, 81
intellectual prejudice 5
intergroup calls 81
introspective observation 7, 11
kinship 78
know how 25
knowledge
attributions. See psychology of knowledge attributions
propositional vs procedural 22, 31
second-order vs first-order 28, 29
knowledge account of assertion. See simple knowledge account of assertion
known-false account of lying. See lying
lie-detection 35
linguistic
anthropology 11
community 11
data 3
performance 31
production and interpretation 11
rules 11
listener-centered responses 20
lying 37
mechanisms 26, 27, 28, 79, 80, 82
mental state
attributions 55
verbs 10
Mill, John Stuart 47
misunderstanding 11, 22, 32, 72
modulating assertion 10
moral psychology 5
naturalistic observation 4
negative assertions 40
non-factive norms 69
non-human
animals 2
primates 84
norm
of assertion 2, 7, 12, 30, 51, 52, 56, 61, 62, 63, 65, 75, 77, 87
of decision 68, 69, 71, 74, 75, 77
of guaranteeing 28
of instruction 25
of questioning. See questioning
of showing. See showing
normative
conversational mechanisms 27, 29
ordinary
competence. See competence
judgments 41
speech 8
organisms 78
organizing principles 2
pedagogy 22
perceptual evidence 42
perfect vs imperfect requirements 62, 63, 64, 75
philosophy of science 34
phonocentric responses. See speaker-centered responses
Plato 29
politeness 27
possibility of error 42
praise 66
predators 79
prime pedagogical principle 25
propositions 2
psycholinguistic research 11
of knowledge attributions 44, 85
implicitly vs explicitly 9
reasonable false assertions 39, 40, 44, 45, 47, 63, 67, 68, 69
receiver retaliation 80
regression analysis 13, 37, 48
relevance conditionals 19
religious
texts 3
representation 84
responsibility 26
rule-breaking 47
rule-governed activity 3
safety 54
saying that you know 26
selfless assertions 53, 54, 55
self-representation 8, 9, 10, 24, 33, 56
semantics 11
simple knowledge account of assertion 3, 17
skeptical responding 81
social
controversy 54
dominance 80
psychology 35
status 55
song matching 80
speaker-centered responses 20
statistical
analysis 74
decision procedures 73
suberogatory action 66
supererogatory action 66
sustaining practices 83
swearing 26
syntax 11
telling 22
theoretical neutrality 41
theory-laden intuitions 50
thought experiments 35, 53, 55, 76
understanding 34
unified responses 57
unintentional rule-breaking. See excuse validation
unlucky falsehoods 41
unwritten rules 4
vaccines 54
value of knowledge 30
vervet monkeys 81
vindication 9
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 28
written assertions 13
