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    It is not the case that If successful communication requires the hearer to recognize the speaker's intention, then intention is not criterial for meaning but instrumental to it.

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    • 1.If intention is causally necessary for communication success, it functions as a criterion for when communication actually occurs.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'criterial' and 'instrumental' collapses when something is necessary and sufficient for identifying the phenomenon.
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    • 3.Speaker intention directly constitutes meaning; recognizing it doesn't merely enable communication but defines what the utterance means.
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    • 1.Recognition of intent is causally necessary for successful communication but not definitionally constitutive of what meaning is.
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    • 2.Meaning can exist in texts/utterances independent of any speaker's intention, yet communication still requires hearers to grasp those intentions.
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    • 3.Tools can be instrumental to achieving a goal without being criteria for what that goal fundamentally is.
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