Meaning Detachment

• Part 1. Meaning Detachment and Interpreting Utterances
• I. Detachment rule | p. 1
• II. Detachment theorem | p. 1
• III. The meaning-implication relation | p. 3
• IV. Meaning detachment (weak version) | p. 3
• V. The entailment of “mean” according to Grice | p. 5
• VI. Incorporation of a consequence into meaning | p. 9
• VII. Meaning detachment (strong version) | p. 14
• VIII. Arbitrariness of signs | p. 18
• IX. Linguistic marking of meaning detachment | p. 23
• X. Meaning detachment from a partial interpretation | p. 27
• XI. Some cases of non meaning detachment | p. 30
• XII. Various extensions of meaning detachment | p. 38
• Part 2. Self-Interpreting Utterances
• XIII. Self-referring implication | p. 45
• XIV. Self-referring interpretation | p. 49
• XV. Self-interpretive variants | p. 51
• XVI. Self-reference in linguistic interpretations | p. 52
• XVII. A caveat on the notion of “self-reference” | p. 67
• XVIII. Self-interpreting thoughts? | p. 68
• XIX. Some similarities between context-interpretations and self-interpretations | p. 70
• XX. One difference between context-interpretations and self-interpretations | p. 79
• XXI. “Insubordination” of the interpretans | p. 84
• Appendix: explicit performatives are assertions
• 0. Assertion | p. 89
• 1. Autonomous relevance of primary meaning | p. 94
• 2. Contextual incorporation of primary meaning | p. 95
• 3. Explicit performative answers | p. 96
• 4. “True” explicit performatives | p. 96
• 5. Explicit performatives embedded in assertion-inducers | p. 97
• 6. Parenthetical explicit performatives in French | p. 97
• 7. Reporting an explicit performative | p. 98
• 8. Assertions induced by “and” | p. 98
• 9. “And” versus “or” | p. 100
• 10. A special case with ‘or’ | p. 103
• Conclusion | p. 107
• Footnotes | p. 109

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