Invisible minimalism.

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      BACH, Kent; TRAVIS, Charles
    • Abstract:
      This essay attempts a rapprochement between Kent Bach's view on semantic minimalism and the most radical version of contextualism about language on offer: Charles Travis's occasion-sensitivity. Despite common assumptions held by defenders of semantic literalism - which cast Bach's proposal as a form of contextualism - Bach rejects all conceivable forms of contextualism. In this paper, I argue that in spite of his systematic rejection of contextualism, Bach's position bears a striking resemblance to Travis's occasionsensitivity. Further, when analyzed in light of the conceptual framework developed by Travis, Bach's strand of minimalism can be shown to contain a deeprooted conceptual inconsistency to the extent that he aims to ascribe "pure semantic content" to a linguistic entity that is necessarily pragmatic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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