If the regress is not halted by some non-intentional conventional or contextual fact, the reflexive intention condition cannot be a finitely specifiable requirement on speaker meaning.
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Non-intentional(as a description of how processes work without needing a conscious agent directing them)
Not guided by a mind, plan, goal, or purpose; happening automatically through natural laws rather than deliberate design.
Reflexive intention(as used in philosophy of language and communication)
A speaker's intention that loops back on itself—you intend your audience to understand what you mean *because* you intend them to recognize that you have this intention.
Regress / Infinite Regress(the main problem Carroll identifies)
A logical problem where you need to justify something, but your justification requires another justification, which requires another, and so on forever—never reaching a solid stopping point.
speaker meaning(Grice's analysis of non-natural meaning; distinguished from merely causing a belief through other means)
A speaker means that p when the speaker intends to cause the audience to believe that p, and further intends that the audience form that belief on the basis of their recognition of the speaker's intention to produce it