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    Communicative theories of blame face a potential problem — Carmelics
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    • 1.Blame, even when unexpressed, has an inherently address-directed structure: it represents the blamed party as someone who owes a response or account.
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    • 2.P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes are constitutively oriented toward second-personal relations, meaning their intentional content is communicative even absent actual expression.
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    • 3.An act can be essentially communicative in nature without being communicated, just as an assertion can be insincere without ceasing to be an assertion-type speech act.
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    • 1.T.M. Scanlon's accountability-based view holds that blame consists in revising one's attitudes toward another as a fellow rational agent capable of justification—a disposition with communicative structure at its core.
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    • 2.Dispositional states are correctly typed by their functional role and teleological aim, not by their token actualization, so unexpressed blame can still be communicative in its functional essence.
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    • 1.Many (perhaps most) instances of blame are not expressed or communicated
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    • 2.If blame instances are not communicated, it is unclear in what sense they are communicative
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    • 3.If blame instances are not communicative, it is unclear how blame can be essentially communicative in its nature
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    Because of their relative newness to the scene, there is not much criticism of these views. However, one potential problem with these views is that many (perhaps most) instances of blame are not expressed or communicated. In what sense are those instances of blame communicative? And if they are not, how can blame be essentially communicative in its nature? Gary Watson suggests that resentment is “incipiently communicative” and says that “in some elusive sense, resentment is ‘meant to be expresse
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