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"Appreciating the context of utterances is critical for this, even for humans".
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The claim that understanding an utterance amounts to nothing more than understanding the meaning of the expression uttered (perhaps relative to the context of utterance) is not only substantive but also false.
The general principle that guided research in "functional sentence perspective" is that the syntactic structure of a sentence is in part determined by the communicative function of its various constituents and the way in which they relate to the context of utterance.
If the context of assessment is the context of utterance, then the speaker does know.
The context of utterance is the context in which the speech act is made.
Rather, 'actual' is simply an indexical whose extension is determined by the context of utterance.
In such cases, the context of utterance plays a role in determining which proposition the sentence expresses.
But then it seems like this expression must be an indexical its reference must depend on the context of utterance.
Context sensitivity is (potential) variability in content due purely to changes in the context of utterance without a change in the convention of word usage.
The contextualist about 'knows' aims to provide the answer: the extension of 'knows' depends on features of the context of utterance.
Thus, the character of 'I' will be a rule specifying that the expression refers to the speaker in the context of utterance.
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Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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