This may become common ground.
Stories allow us to model interpretive, affective, ethical choices; they also become common ground.
"Despite the resistance, though, he would become common ground between the two schools".
In remarks at a dinner that she gave for General Jo on Tuesday evening, Dr. Albright said that what has been contested ground can, over time, become common ground.
And it can become common ground for men and women to drink together, said Yvonne Briese, vice president for brand marketing for whisky at Diageo, the conglomerate that owns Bushmills.
Mr. Nayed, 49, stands out, even among the colorful characters in the Corinthia's lobby, which has become common ground for fighters in camouflage, leftists and Islamists in identical gray business suits, rumpled aid workers, journalists and idealistic young students, all bustling about doing the business of the new Libya.
Hence, a non-deceptive liar may be proposing that her believed-false proposition become common ground without this being an act of making an assertion.
Either, in the case of a non-deceptive lie, the speaker does propose that the believed-false proposition become common ground, but becoming common ground is too weak to count as asserting, or becoming common ground is strong enough to count as asserting, but, in the case of a non-deceptive lie, the speaker does not propose that the believed-false proposition become common ground.
In the case of a speaker making an ironic untruthful statement, the speaker does not propose that the believed-false proposition (e.g., "Brutus is an honorable man") become common ground (Stokke 2013a, 50).
However, in the case of a non-deceptive liar, the speaker does propose that the believed-false proposition (e.g., "I did not cheat") become common ground (Stokke 2013a, 52).
However, if proposing that a believed-false proposition become common ground can mean engaging in and sustaining a "pretence," possibly in order to communicate truths, then it is not clear that this counts as making an assertion.
