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    Conversational implicatures are cancellable without contr... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Implicatures contribute not only to what is suggested or conveyed but even to what is ordinarily called 'what is said.'

    Conversational implicatures are cancellable without contradiction, whereas genuine components of 'what is said' cannot be cancelled without falsifying the utterance.

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    • 1.Cancellation tests reliably distinguish semantic content from pragmatic inference in natural language use.
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    • 2.What is said determines truth conditions; implicatures add further meaning without affecting whether utterances are true or false.
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    • 3.Speakers can explicitly deny implicatures ('I'm not saying he's incompetent') while maintaining utterance truth, but cannot do so for stated content.
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    • 1.Cancellation itself requires pragmatic competence, so the test may conflate what is cancellable with what speakers can pragmatically exploit.
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    • 2.Some genuine semantic presuppositions fail the contradiction test, suggesting cancellability is neither necessary nor sufficient for distinguishing semantic from pragmatic content.
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    • 3.Context-sensitivity means implicatures sometimes become part of asserted content, making the boundary between said and implicated unstable and unreliable as a criterion.
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