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Collective communicative intentions in context
University of Leeds, UK.
2023 (English)In: Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, E-ISSN 2330-4014, Vol. 10, no 8, p. 211-236Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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What are the objects of speaker meaning? The traditional answer is: propositions. The traditional answer faces an important challenge: if propositions are the objects of speaker meaning then there must be specific propositions that speakers intend their audiences to recover. Yet, speakers typically exhibit a degree of indifference regarding how they are interpreted, and cannot rationally intend for their audiences to recover specific propositions. Therefore, propositions are not the objects of speaker meaning (Buchanan 2010; MacFarlane 2020a; 2020b; and Abreu Zavaleta 2021). In this paper I do two things. Firstly, I outline a collective analogue of this challenge that undermines the most prominent responses to the original challenge. Secondly, I provide a new solution: typical utterances are backed by a cluster of partial communicative intentions. This response resolves both individual and collective variants of the problem and allows us to retain the traditional propositional view of speaker meaning.

 

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University of Michigan Library , 2023. Vol. 10, no 8, p. 211-236
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-220354DOI: 10.3998/ergo.4638OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-220354DiVA, id: diva2:1833774
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EU, Horizon 2020, 818633Available from: 2024-02-01 Created: 2024-02-01 Last updated: 2024-02-01Bibliographically approved

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