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    Cappelen and Lepore's minimalist proposition does not sat... — Carmelics
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    Cappelen and Lepore's minimalist proposition does not satisfy Recanati's criterion for 'what is said'.

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    • 1.Recanati's 'availability heuristic' requires that 'what is said' be recoverable through primary pragmatic processes, not theoretical stipulation.
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    • 2.Cappelen and Lepore's minimal proposition is constructed via semantic theory alone, bypassing the cognitive accessibility that Recanati identifies as constitutive of saying.
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    • 3.A proposition that requires philosophical argument to identify as expressed cannot satisfy a criterion grounded in pre-reflective communicative awareness.
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    • 1.Sperber and Wilson's relevance theory establishes that communicated content must be inferentially accessible to hearers using contextual assumptions they actually possess.
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    • 2.The Cappelen-Lepore minimal proposition—true regardless of rain location—would be identified by no rational hearer as the communicated content, since it violates the search for optimal relevance.
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    • 3.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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    • 1.Recanati's criterion requires the expressed proposition to be consciously available to the speaker.
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    • 2.John would not be consciously aware of having expressed a proposition that is true if it was raining on Venus.
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    • 3.John would not at any remotely conscious level have planned for his interlocutor to reason from the triviality and irrelevance of the proposition that rain occurs to the intended meaning that it rains at Stanford.
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    Those over on the Contextualist side, in contrast, see the level corresponding to Grice’s ‘what is said’ as determined not only by semantics, disambiguation and reference-fixing, but also by a number of other pragmatic processes that ‘intrude’ on the near side and enrich semantic content. Contextualists include relevance theorists and such philosophers as Recanati (2004), Travis (1997), Korta and Perry (2006a, 2006b, 2007a, 2007b, 2008, 2011, 2013) and Neale (2004). Contemporary contextualists d
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