Keelefilosoofia raamat
have meant in uttering it is what we already know that sentence to mean.
Obstacle 3
Novel sentences again. Even when a sentence is actually uttered, it may be
wildly novel, yet instantly understood by its audience. But if it is novel, then
there is (as before, independently of what we know the sentence itself to
mean) no pre-established fact of what speakers normally mean or would
normally mean by it. And notice that the first, novel use may be (a) also the
last and (b) itself nonliteral. (I am pretty sure that the following sentence has
never been uttered before, though it may be uttered again: "The President
of the United States Philosophy Corporation, who has finally been released
from prison and is hurrying here to the aviary on winged feet, will share
the riches of her spirit with us at 3:00 p.m. tomorrow." In such a case, even
though the sentence had been uttered, no one would ever actually have meant
by it what it literally means.)
Blackburn (1984: ch
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