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    It is not the case that The Determinacy condition is insufficient to ground Calculability

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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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    • 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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