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    Grice's cooperative maxims and Stalnaker's context-change... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Iterated announcements can be self-refuting rather than self-fulfilling.

    Grice's cooperative maxims and Stalnaker's context-change semantics both treat successive utterances as updating distinct contexts, not as a single self-undermining act.

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    • 1.Grice's maxims presuppose participants track how each utterance fulfills or violates cooperative principles, requiring distinct conversational states.
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    • 2.Stalnaker's model explicitly defines context as a set of possible worlds that updates incrementally; successive utterances narrow rather than collapse context.
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    • 3.If utterances were self-undermining acts, communication would require listeners to reject premises while accepting conclusions, violating rational interpretation.
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    • 1.Performative utterances like 'I apologize' self-referentially affect their own truth-conditions, suggesting contexts need not remain strictly separable.
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    • 2.Presupposition accommodation shows speakers can introduce content that revises prior context retroactively, blurring the boundary between distinct updates.
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    • 3.Some conversational repairs and clarifications explicitly acknowledge prior utterances as failed or misleading, suggesting single-act self-undermining occurs.
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