Understanding the linguistic meaning of an utterance is only a necessary, not sufficient, condition for understanding the utterance fully; one must also discover the author's illocutionary intentions
linguistic meaning(Contrasted with authorial intention and illocutionary force in hermeneutic theory)
The semantic content of a word, formula, or utterance as determined by the rules governing its use within the background system of linguistic possibilities
necessary condition(Counterfactual analysis of causation; Mackie 1965, 1974)
A condition C is necessary for event E if E would not have occurred in the absence of C
sufficient condition(Used in the context of whether intrinsic properties can define species membership)
A property whose presence guarantees membership in or applicability of a category, such that having the property entails belonging to the species or class
utterance(Contrast drawn in discussing the referent of demonstrative 'that')
A concrete event (an utterance-token), as opposed to an abstract utterance-type.
In On Thomas Abbt’s Writings, On the Cognition and Sensation, and elsewhere Herder makes one of his most important and influential innovations: interpretation must supplement its focus on word-usage with attention to the author’s psychology. Herder implies several reasons for this (some of which would subsequently be developed more explicitly and elaborately by successors such as Schleiermacher and Friedrich Schlegel): (1) As was already mentioned, he embraces a quasi-empiricist theory of concep