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    Recanati's 'Truth-Conditional Pragmatics' demonstrates th... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Meaning alone does not determine what is stated, at least insofar as what is stated determines truth-conditions.

    Recanati's 'Truth-Conditional Pragmatics' demonstrates that unarticulated constituents—elements absent from logical form—routinely contribute to truth-conditions of utterances.

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    • 1.Utterances like 'It's raining' are true/false relative to hidden parameters (location, time) absent from logical form.
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    • 2.Pragmatic context routinely fills gaps that pure syntax cannot explain, making truth-conditions partly context-dependent.
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    • 3.Distinguishing unarticulated constituents from ambiguity/indexicality provides a unified framework for underdetermined truth.
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    • 1.All apparently unarticulated constituents reduce to covert indexicals or free variables—no new category needed.
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    • 2.Truth-conditions properly belong to logical forms; pragmatic effects on interpretation don't change semantic truth-values.
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    • 3.Proliferating hidden constituents risks unfalsifiability—any perceived gap can be posited ad hoc without empirical constraint.
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