Treating undetermined factors as internal to the reflexive content conflates the semantic level with the pragmatic process that resolves it, undermining the semantic/pragmatic distinction.
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The important difference between what something *means* (semantic) and how it's *used in practice* (pragmatic)—like the difference between a word's dictionary definition and what someone actually accomplishes by saying it.
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.