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    It does not follow from the normativity of assertion that meaning is normative.

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    • 1.Grice's distinction between what is said and what is implicated shows that semantic content is determined independently of conversational norms.
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    • 2.On Gricean accounts, the maxims governing assertion are defeasible and context-sensitive, whereas semantic meaning remains stable across contexts where maxims are flouted.
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    • 3.If meaning were constituted by assertoric norms, irony and metaphor would alter semantic content rather than merely conversational implicature, which is false.
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    • 1.Kaplan and Stalnaker's truth-conditional semantics assigns meanings as functions from contexts to extensions without invoking any normative constraints on speakers.
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    • 2.A complete compositional semantic theory can be stated entirely in non-normative terms, so normativity is not a constitutive feature of semantic content.
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    • 1.Rules of assertion (such as the knowledge rule) are pragmatic rules regulating the performance of speech acts, not semantic rules.
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    • 2.Even if such pragmatic rules are essential for the possibility of assertion, they govern assertion rather than meaning.
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    • 3.The impression that there is a semantic obligation to speak the truth results from a conflation of semantics and pragmatics.
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    In addition, there are a variety of other arguments in support of ME normativity. One such argument grants that correctness conditions are not themselves normative, but suggests that we derive the normativity of meaning from the idea that we ought to speak the truth (Ebbs 1997; Haugeland 1998: Soames 1997: 221, 224). As noted above, this only succeeds if the obligation in question can be said to derive purely from semantic sources. The question, then, is whether there is any reason to suppose th
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