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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.'

    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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    Implicatures(in linguistics and philosophy of language)
    Meanings that are suggested or hinted at by what someone says, rather than directly stated—like when someone says 'that's an interesting choice' to imply they think it's a bad idea.
    Indeterminate(Reichenbach's three-valued quantum logic)
    The value of propositions that quantum theory implies cannot be assessed to be either true or false
    Semantic theorizing(in philosophy of language)
    The philosophical work of explaining how language gets its meaning and what words refer to.
    Truth-conditional content(in semantics and philosophy of language)
    The meaning of a sentence defined by the specific conditions under which that sentence would be true or false.
    pragmatic context

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    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.

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