I argue that assertoric content functions as a means for us to track the responsibilities undertaken by communicators, and that distinctively assertoric commitments are distinguished by being generated directly in virtue of the words the speaker uses. This raises two questions: (a) Why are speakers responsible for the content thus generated? (b) Why is it important for us to distinguish between commitments in terms of their manner of generation? I answer the first question by developing a novel responsibility based metasemantics. I answer the second by reference to the conflicting pressures governing the resources we have available for appraising speech.

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断言的内容、责任和元语义

我认为断言内容是我们追踪传播者所承担责任的一种手段，并且独特的断言承诺的区别在于直接根据说话者使用的词语产生。这就提出了两个问题：(a) 为什么说话者要对由此产生的内容负责？(b) 为什么区分承诺的产生方式对我们很重要？我通过开发一种新的基于责任的元语义来回答第一个问题。我通过参考支配我们可用于评估言论的资源的相互冲突的压力来回答第二个问题。