Think about:
R - 'You have no rights at all'.
No right to attach any intelligible interpretation to R?
No right to expect you to be saying something intelligible to me?
No right to be told the truth?
All incoherent, of course. We must attribute some minimal rights to interlocutors.
Is this a ground for a general theory of rights? (Do we have the right to rice pudding and income tax?)
Perhaps. Depending on what kinds of conversation we want to have...
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