The supportingargument's premise that undetermined factors must enter the reflexive content begs the question against minimalism by assuming rich context-dependence at the level of what is said.
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Undetermined factors(in this philosophical debate about meaning)
Things that aren't fixed or decided yet; elements that could go different ways depending on circumstances.
begs the question(Informal fallacy in epistemic justification)
A circular argument in which warrant for the premises already presupposes the truth of the conclusion
what is said(Contrasted with 'semantic content' in the literalist/minimalist framework)
The contextually relevant proposition an ordinary speaker would identify as the content of an utterance; treated by Cappelen and Lepore as a pragmatic concept rather than a semantic one.