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    Challenges→The reflexive (utterance-bound) content of an utterance is not the proposition expressed, but rather a set of conditions on the utterance and the proposition it expresses, with quantification over all relevant factors not determined by meaning.

    Reflexive content, on a Gricean account, is a pragmatic inference layer computed post-semantics, not a component of content that structurally contains open quantification.

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    • 1.Grice's framework explains speaker meaning through intentional communicative acts, which naturally occur post-utterance interpretation.
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    • 2.Reflexive content like 'I am speaking' requires contextual evaluation that semantic composition alone cannot provide before pragmatic recovery.
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    • 3.Open quantification in logical form would require reflexive pronouns to remain unbound at the semantic level, contradicting their apparent saturation.
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    • 1.If reflexive content is post-semantic, it cannot explain how hearers immediately understand reflexive pronouns without conscious inferential steps.
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    • 2.Reflexive pronouns exhibit binding relationships with antecedents that appear structural and compositional, not derived from pragmatic calculation afterward.
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    • 3.The distinction between post-semantic pragmatics and semantic content becomes unclear when reflexive recovery is necessary for truth-conditional evaluation.
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