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    Supports→Cappelen and Lepore's minimalist proposition does not satisfy Recanati's criterion for 'what is said'.

    A criterion for 'what is said' that systematically excludes propositions hearers actually recover in favor of logically weaker ones severs the link between semantics and communicative success that Recanati's framework is designed to preserve.

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    Key Terms

    Recanati(as a key figure in contextualism)
    François Recanati, a French philosopher who studies how words and context interact to create meaning, and how speakers convey thoughts beyond just the literal words they use.
    communicative success(as what the framework is trying to preserve)
    When a speaker actually gets their intended meaning across to a listener, so the listener understands what they meant to convey.
    criterion(as used in philosophy to describe a test for whether an idea works)
    A standard or rule used to decide whether something counts as true or valid.
    logically weaker(logic)
    A claim that provides less information or is easier to satisfy than another claim; it's less demanding or restrictive.
    propositions

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    (Answer to the question of what metaphysical category propositions belong to)
    Entities belonging to a sui generis metaphysical category of their own kind, not reducible to other categories
    semantics(Distinguished from metasemantics and pragmatics in Kaplan 1989)
    The domain that concerns the facts about what meanings words or phrases have.

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