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Practical reasoning and speech acts

Understanding of an action is an attempt at reconstruction of the actor’s practical inference. Understanding of a speech act is just a kind of understanding action. Th„e regular cases of understanding speech-acts are so simple that the reconstruction of practical inferences goes unnoticed. Th„e thesis on existence of speaker’s meaning, if it is true, gives support that there are non-trivial cases of the speaker’s practical reasoning reconstruction needed for the understanding of his speech acts. „The process of belief formation involved in the reconstruction of the speaker’s practical reasoning is unreliable. For the sake of promoting rationality as a social and communicative value, "Humpty Dumpty" way of communication ought to be avoided.

formal pragmatics; reasons; speaker's meaning

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