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    It is not the case that Mutual knowledge of a language L sufficient for communication is achieved only after a given linguistic use occurs, not before it.

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    • 1.Successful communication presupposes antecedent shared linguistic conventions, as Grice's cooperative maxims require pre-established mutual expectations.
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    • 2.Lewis's account in 'Convention' (1969) demonstrates that language use itself presupposes prior common knowledge of regularities, not the reverse.
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    • 3.Without antecedent mutual knowledge of at least some semantic and syntactic norms, utterances would be indistinguishable from noise, precluding any post-hoc convergence.
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    • 1.Chomskyan internalism holds that linguistic competence is a stable cognitive state antecedent to any particular communicative exchange.
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    • 2.If speakers' shared grammatical knowledge is psychologically real prior to utterance, mutual knowledge of L is constituted before, not after, any given use occurs.
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    • 1.Once a relevant linguistic use takes place, speaker and hearer converge on shared meanings.
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    • 2.This convergence produces mutual knowledge of L that was not present antecedently.
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