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<p>Successful literal communication has a standard explanation in analytic philosophy, which requires some determinate proposition expressed by the speaker to be taken up by the audience. In this paper, I extend the standard explanation of communication to account for cases of indeterminacy. Unlike other proposals, the extension does not give up that a unique proposition is communicated. What the audience takes up is a coarse-grained proposition—a “good enough” answer to the question under discussion. I motivate this Coarse-Grained Model of communication from the central Gricean maxims.</p>

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Defending the classical model of communication against the challenge from indeterminacy

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    2025年11月5日

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  • Conrad Friedrich

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Successful literal communication has a standard explanation in analytic philosophy, which requires some determinate proposition expressed by the speaker to be taken up by the audience. In this paper, I extend the standard explanation of communication to account for cases of indeterminacy. Unlike other proposals, the extension does not give up that a unique proposition is communicated. What the audience takes up is a coarse-grained proposition—a “good enough” answer to the question under discussion. I motivate this Coarse-Grained Model of communication from the central Gricean maxims.