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    It is not the case that Speaker-meaning is explanatorily prior to expression-meaning

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    • 1.Speakers can only mean things by utterances because they already grasp the conventional meanings of the expressions they deploy.
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    • 2.Grice's analysis of speaker-meaning itself smuggles in linguistic concepts like 'recognition' that presuppose a background of expression-meaning.
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    • 3.Therefore speaker-meaning is parasitic on, not prior to, expression-meaning — inverting the Gricean explanatory order.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that meaning is constituted by public, normative practices irreducible to any individual speaker's intentions.
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    • 2.If meaning is grounded in communal form-of-life rather than mental acts, then expression-meaning in the practice is prior to any particular speaker's meaning.
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    • 1.Sentences and other expressions mean what they do because of what speakers mean by their utterances
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    • 2.An analysis of speaker-meaning can be given without appeal to facts about what expressions mean
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