PHILOS 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Small Talk, If And Only If
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Intention-based semantics a: motivation, linguistic behavior d, what are the relevant goals? rational behavior e. i. e. ii. Get out of here! an order (relevant goal is to get someone to get out of this room) X meansnn that p = x meansnn p . X meansn that p =/= x meansn p / These conditions seem to hold in the case of the rings of the bell on the bus b. ii. John is an athlete, tends to produce the belief that john is tall b. ii. 1. athletes cant just be nontall because that presupposes meaning b. iii. 1. fundamental notion: a speaker"s meaning something by an utterance on a particular occasion - any notion of standard meaning has to be explained in terms of this fundamental notion: s means by x that p a. i. First attempt: s means by x that p iff s utters x intending a. i. 1. If a then b = be necessary condition for a.
