372 UNDERSTANDING

One has to admit a sense of 'conversational effect'. There is more to the understanding of a term than being able to cite its 'meaning': there are pragmatic aspects, peculiar to the conversational situation, such as tone, force, irony, and the like. Thus, when a speaker utters a statement, what is called for is not only an understanding on the hearer's part, but an interpretation as well. It is these aspects of conversation, which, in practice are inseparable, that compel us to take into account more than 'meaning' qua extension (i.e. scholastic arguments in semantics).

-> Propositional attitudes 300; A priori 27; Ambiguity 11; Beliefs 64, 65; Blurting 76; Context 95, 96, 99, 103; Conversation 109; Conversational matrix 114, 115; Indeterminacy 177; Intersubjectivity 187; Language 194, 198, 199; Language environment 202; Language games 204; Lebenswelt 217; Lexicographer 219; Meaning 236, 237; Pragmatics 276, 278, 279; Semantics 317; Surface-structure 337; Understanding 371;

& Ambiguity 13; Blurting 77, 78; Context 102; Conversation 108; Conversational matrix 113, 117; Individuality 178; Learning 215; Stylistics 330; Thesaurus 353; Translation 363;

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