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    Challenges→The level corresponding to Grice's 'what is said' is determined not only by semantics, disambiguation, and reference-fixing, but also by additional pragmatic processes that enrich semantic content.

    Allowing unconstrained pragmatic intrusion collapses the distinction between 'what is said' and 'what is implicated', undermining Grice's theoretical architecture.

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    • 1.Grice's said/implicated distinction requires principled boundaries; unconstrained pragmatics dissolves these via excessive context-sensitivity.
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    • 2.Without constraining pragmatic intrusion, semantic content becomes indeterminate, making falsifiability and truth-conditions impossible to establish.
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    • 3.Communication requires hearers to recover speaker meaning; unlimited pragmatic flexibility prevents reliable decoding of intended content.
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    • 1.Pragmatic intrusion into 'what is said' is already constitutive of meaning; Grice's boundary was never as sharp as the objection assumes.
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    • 2.Modern semantic-pragmatic frameworks (relevance theory, contextualism) show the said/implicated distinction can survive pragmatic integration without collapse.
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    • 3.Communication succeeds despite—or because of—pragmatic flexibility; the distinction's utility doesn't require metaphysical purity of boundaries.
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