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    The Determinacy condition is insufficient to ground Calculability

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    • 1.Grice's Maxims underdetermine implicature selection because multiple maxim-satisfying interpretations remain live even after word meaning and reference are fixed.
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    • 2.Sperber and Wilson's Relevance Theory shows that without a cognitive criterion like optimal relevance, Determinacy alone cannot rank competing cooperative responses.
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    • 3.If no independent ranking principle is supplied, Calculability collapses into guesswork, meaning Determinacy is a necessary but insufficient condition for it.
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    • 1.Levinson's notion of Q-implicature and I-implicature frequently conflict, generating incompatible but equally determinate outputs from the same fixed semantic content.
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    • 2.When two Gricean heuristics yield contradictory implicatures from identical word meanings, Determinacy has been satisfied yet Calculability fails to produce a unique result.
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    • 1.Determinacy requires that a speaker must believe and implicate p for the speaker's utterance to be consistent with the Cooperative Principle
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    • 2.There are normally many alternative ways to be cooperative and contribute what is required by a conversation even when word meanings and referents are fixed
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    • 3.If multiple cooperative responses are available, no single implicature is uniquely determined
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    Grice’s Determinacy condition states that S conversationally implicates p only if S has to believe (and implicate) p if S’s utterance is to be consistent with the Cooperative Principle. Determinacy is a key premise in the working-out schema, so Calculability depends on it. As §8 illustrated, however, there are normally many alternative ways to be cooperative, and contribute what is required by the conversation, even when the meanings and referents of the words used are taken as given.
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