RE: RT list: Help needed - sorry pressed the send button

Yes, I think that's right. If I make mutually manifest an intention to communicate that it's raining, my communicative intention is fulfilled. My informative intention is only fulfilled if it becomes manifest to the addressee that it's raining (so not if they don't believe me).

I don't think something can be manifest to someone if they think it's false, since the definition of manifestness includes a reference to being able to represent something as true (or probably true). It can be manifest to me that people think that the earth is flat but not that the earth is flat (since I believe that's false).

Best wishes,

Billy

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From: Anabella-Gloria Niculescu-Gorpin [anabellaniculescu@hotmail.com]
Sent: 28 August 2012 09:49
To: Billy Clark; relevance@linguistics.ucl.ac.uk
Subject: Fw: RT list: Help needed - sorry pressed the send button

I am sorry, I've sent the message before finishing it.

The conclusion is that

it seems that there are actually three steps:
1. you fulfill your communicative intention
2. you make mutually manifest you informative intention by fulfilling 1. -
and these are somewhat interrelated....
3. you fulfill your informative intention once I believe it/find it to be
possibly true.

Does it make sense?

Thank you,

Anabella
Received on Tue Aug 28 10:13:19 2012