Abstract
Truth-Conditional Pragmatics is the view that the meaning of the sentence in an utterance does not alone yield a truth-conditional content (even after disambiguation and reference fixing); that meaning can be pragmatically supplemented in indefinitely many ways yielding indefinitely many truth conditions. Recanati urges a version of this doctrine. I argue that the prospects for the doctrine are dim. I also briefly indicate how the semantic tradition view might handle the context-relative phenomena that motives pragmatism.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 85-102 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Teorema |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Externally published | Yes |