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    Challenges→The level corresponding to Grice's 'what is said' is determined not only by semantics, disambiguation, and reference-fixing, but also by additional pragmatic processes that enrich semantic content.

    The contextualist conflation of encoded meaning with pragmatic modulation generates an unbounded regress: any enrichment can itself be further enriched without semantic anchor.

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    • 1.Pragmatic enrichment (e.g., 'The ham sandwich left') requires contextual interpretation that itself demands further interpretation without halting rule.
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    • 2.Without determinate semantic content anchoring interpretation, speakers cannot establish when enrichment ends or becomes illegitimate.
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    • 3.Conflating literal meaning with context-dependent use obscures the distinction between what is said and what is merely implicated.
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    • 1.Pragmatic enrichment naturally terminates when communicative goals are satisfied; regress doesn't occur because pragmatics aims at intentional states.
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    • 2.Encoded meaning and pragmatic modulation aren't conflated but complementary: semantics provides the stable base for bounded pragmatic variation.
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    • 3.Practical conversation exhibits stable interpretation without infinite regress; the objection confuses theoretical possibility with actual linguistic behavior.
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