if you present a statement which isn’t evidently correct, then you have to argue its correctness.
I’m not sure that is the case. Sometimes people brainstorm; sometimes they suggest hypotheses; sometimes they share ideas. Any of these can look grammatically like a declarative statement, but they are not assertions. They are more like conjectures. They justify their presence in a conversation by being interesting and provocative, not by being supported by evidence and argument.
Very little of human communication transfers information about the external world. The bulk of it either transfers information about the speaker’s mental state or is intended to focus the listener’s attention on some thing, event, or idea.
When you argue correctness of a statement with which the interlocutor doesn’t originally agree, and use a proof-like strategy for doing so, you don’t transfer information about environment either, instead you focus their attention on a sequence of statements already accepted, that surprisingly leads to the originally unexpected conclusion.
When you brainstorm, then the observations you seek are exactly the ideas produced by intuition, so you are not asserting anything about something else, instead you are producing the basic observations. When you voice your opinion, assuming you are trustworthy, you communicate your state of knowledge, and your interlocutor believes that your state of knowledge is indeed as you state it.
I’m not sure that is the case. Sometimes people brainstorm; sometimes they suggest hypotheses; sometimes they share ideas. Any of these can look grammatically like a declarative statement, but they are not assertions. They are more like conjectures. They justify their presence in a conversation by being interesting and provocative, not by being supported by evidence and argument.
Very little of human communication transfers information about the external world. The bulk of it either transfers information about the speaker’s mental state or is intended to focus the listener’s attention on some thing, event, or idea.
When you argue correctness of a statement with which the interlocutor doesn’t originally agree, and use a proof-like strategy for doing so, you don’t transfer information about environment either, instead you focus their attention on a sequence of statements already accepted, that surprisingly leads to the originally unexpected conclusion.
When you brainstorm, then the observations you seek are exactly the ideas produced by intuition, so you are not asserting anything about something else, instead you are producing the basic observations. When you voice your opinion, assuming you are trustworthy, you communicate your state of knowledge, and your interlocutor believes that your state of knowledge is indeed as you state it.