Ray Buchanan
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View article: Underspecification and Communication
Underspecification and Communication Open
It has recently been argued that our use of vague language poses an intractable problem for any account of content and communication on which (i) the things we assert are propositions and (ii) understanding an assertion requires recognizin…
View article: Issue Information
Issue Information Open
Glad to be alive: how we can compare a person's existence and her non-existence in terms of what
View article: Meaning Underdetermines What Is Said, Therefore Utterances Express Many Propositions
Meaning Underdetermines What Is Said, Therefore Utterances Express Many Propositions Open
Linguistic meaning underdetermines what is said. This has consequences for philosophical accounts of meaning, communication, and propositional attitude reports. I argue that the consequence we should endorse is that utterances typically ex…