If implicatures contribute to 'what is said,' the truth-conditional content of an utterance becomes indeterminate until pragmatic context is fully resolved, undermining semantic theorizing.
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(as used in philosophy of language and epistemology)
The real-world situation, goals, and practical circumstances surrounding a conversation, rather than just abstract rules.
what is said(Contrasted with 'semantic content' in the literalist/minimalist framework)
The contextually relevant proposition an ordinary speaker would identify as the content of an utterance; treated by Cappelen and Lepore as a pragmatic concept rather than a semantic one.