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It is not the case that Sentence meaning and speaker meaning are not identical.
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For Grice, speaker meaning is systematically derivable from sentence meaning plus contextual principles, making them aspects of one unified phenomenon.
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If speaker meaning is always recoverable via conventional implicature and maxims, the gap between sentence and speaker meaning is methodological, not ontological.
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Wittgenstein's use theory holds that meaning just is use in a form of life, collapsing the distinction between what sentences mean and what speakers do with them.
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If there is no meaning independent of communicative practice, positing a separate 'sentence meaning' reifies an abstraction with no explanatory purchase.
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Sentence meaning and speaker meaning do not always coincide.
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