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    Sincerity conditions can be satisfied in assertion withou... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Speaker meaning requires intending that the audience form the belief on the basis of their recognition of the speaker's intention to produce that belief

    Sincerity conditions can be satisfied in assertion without any reflexive intention that belief-formation be grounded in audience recognition of that very intention.

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    • 1.Sincerity requires only that the speaker believes what they assert, not that they intend any particular cognitive mechanism in the audience.
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    • 2.Gricean reflexive intentions are not necessary conditions for assertion; they describe one sufficient way assertions can work, not the only way.
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    • 3.A speaker can sincerely assert 'I'm tired' without consciously intending that the hearer form belief via recognition of this very intention.
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    • 1.Assertion is constitutively communicative; sincerity requires intending that the audience understand you through recognizing your communicative intent.
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    • 2.Without reflexive intentionality, assertions collapse into mere utterances; the communicative norm distinguishing assertion depends on speaker intention.
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    • 3.If sincerity conditions ignore audience-directed intentions, we cannot distinguish sincere assertions from deceptive utterances that happen to be true.
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