GOGAR - Game of Giving and Asking for Reasons

3.1 Basic Assertion Profile: mie_faithful

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Perspective

¶ What is perspectival scoring?

MIE Ch.3: Each scorekeeper maintains their OWN view of everyone's normative status. Alice's view of Bob's commitments may differ from Bob's view of his own commitments, because they accept different inference rules. This I-Thou asymmetry is fundamental to Brandom's model of discursive practice.

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Key Concepts

Commitment

What you are responsible for. Asserted claims + their inferential consequences.

Entitlement

What you have the right to claim. Default for unchallenged assertions; lost by incompatibility.

Committive Inference

If committed to premises → must accept conclusion. (e.g., "It is raining" → "Streets are wet")

Permissive Inference

If committed AND entitled to premises → may accept conclusion. Weaker than committive.

Incompatibility

Claims that cannot be held together. The basis of negation in Brandom's framework.

Scoreboards

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Assert

¶ What is asserting?

MIE Ch.3: To assert is to undertake a commitment — you become responsible for the claim. You also grant default entitlement to others who hear you. Asserting is the fundamental move in the game of giving and asking for reasons.

Challenge

¶ What is a challenge?

MIE Ch.3: Any participant can demand reasons for another's assertion. The challenged claim loses its default entitlement — the speaker must now vindicate it by giving reasons (other entitled commitments that inferentially support it).

Observe

¶ What is an observational report?

MIE Ch.4 §IV: An observation is a claim acquired through reliable differential responsive disposition (RDRD). If the reporter is reliable on the topic, their entitlement survives challenges — unlike ordinary assertions.

Add Inference

¶ Committive vs Permissive

MIE Ch.2: Committive = commitment to premises obliges commitment to conclusion ("It is raining" → "Streets are wet"). Permissive = commitment + entitlement to premises permits entitlement to conclusion — a weaker, defeasible relation.

Add Incompatibility

¶ What is incompatibility?

MIE Ch.4: Claims that CANNOT be rationally held together. This is the semantic basis for negation — "not P" means "everything incompatible with P". Asserting an incompatible claim forces entitlement loss on its partner.

Assert Identity

¶ What is an identity claim?

MIE Ch.6: Asserting "a = b" creates a symmetric substitutional commitment. Anywhere you're committed to something about "a", you're also committed to the same thing about "b" (and vice versa). This is how singular terms work inferentially.

Ascribe Attitude

¶ De Dicto vs De Re

MIE Ch.8: De dicto = ascribe a belief in the subject's OWN terms ("Alice believes the morning star is bright"). De re = use YOUR substitutions ("Alice believes of Venus that it is bright"). The ascriber takes responsibility for the de re characterization.

Anaphora

¶ What is anaphora?

MIE Ch.7: Anaphora links different tokenings across a discourse. When someone says "he" referring to "John", the pronoun inherits its reference from the antecedent. Reference isn't fixed by pointing — it's transmitted through chains of anaphoric recurrence.