Schuman, Boaz Faraday: To Contradict is to Cooperate: Prior, Abelard, Buridan, Grice

_History and Philosophy of Logic_. forthcomingSuppose we’re at a horserace, and you turn to me and say, ‘Eclipse is at the finish line!’ But by the time you’ve finished saying this—by the time your utterance is complete—Eclipse is already well past the finish line, and what you’ve said is no longer true. But you did say something true. More generally, we can—and often do—say true things about events that take up less time than our utterances themselves. We can also contradict each other about su