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    It is not the case that Communicative theories of blame face a potential problem

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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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    • 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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