So your criticism is that you are looking for the underlying assumption/theory that help humans do this probabilistic inference, and the signalling analysis of meaning tells you there is no such theory?
No, my criticism is that the signalling theory isn’t very good. It doesn’t allow for our intuitive concept of lying, and it doesn’t have an account of literal meaning vs implicature.
So your criticism is that you are looking for the underlying assumption/theory that help humans do this probabilistic inference, and the signalling analysis of meaning tells you there is no such theory?
No, my criticism is that the signalling theory isn’t very good. It doesn’t allow for our intuitive concept of lying, and it doesn’t have an account of literal meaning vs implicature.