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Pragmatic ParticularismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 105 (1): 62-78. 2021.For the Intentionalist, utterance content is wholly determined by a speaker’s meaning-intentions; the sentence uttered serves merely to facilitate the audience’s recovering these intentions. We argue that Intentionalists ought to be Particularists, holding that the only “principles” of meaning recovery needed are those governing inferences to the best explanation; “principles” that are both defeasible and, in a sense to be elaborated, variable. We discuss some ways in which some theorists have …Read more
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Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
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Action Theory |
Decision Theory |
Social Epistemology |