“…These results undermine a fundamental premise of Turri's (2013) This experiment shows, against the assertability assumption, that questions about what an agent 'should say' do not necessarily track assertability judgments, because of the ambiguity between a teleological and a deontological reading of the verb 'should'. This is a significant discovery, as the whole body of studies conducted by Turri and colleagues (Turri, 2013(Turri, , 2014a(Turri, , 2014b(Turri, , 2015(Turri, , 2016(Turri, , 2017b(Turri, , 2017a(Turri, , 2018(Turri, , 2020Turri & Buckwalter, 2017;Turri & Park, 2018) takes the assertability assumption for granted in interpreting the results of the experiments. While we are not claiming that the participants of all these studies must have interpreted the task in a way that is incompatible with the assertability assumption (e.g., teleologically rather than deontologically), our results highlight that the opposite cannot be taken for granted, so that the conclusions drawn in these studies rely on a demonstrably dubious premise.…”