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Can't it be argued that the expression itself is a claim about the state of the world (= "the thing I just said was in jest").
by omginternets 8y ago
Can't it be argued that the expression itself is a claim about the state of the world (= "the thing I just said was in jest").
- ThomPete 8y agoIt can but then you are back to subjective interpretation. You can wink, that wink can have meaning or it's just a wink or you got something in your eye. How do you determine what it is without having used language somehow to establish what a wink could mean? And that's just on the surface of the amgiguity.