Is there a place for truth-conditional pragmatics?

Michael Devitt*

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)85-102
Number of pages18
JournalTeorema
Volume32
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes

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