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3974	Our meanings are partly fixed by events of which we may be ignorant [Davidson]
	Full Idea: What we mean by what we say is partly fixed by events of which we may be ignorant.
	From: Donald Davidson (Davidson on himself [1994], p.235)
	A reaction: There is 'strict and literal meaning', which is fixed by the words, even if I don't know what I am saying. But 'speaker's meaning' is surely a pure matter of a state of mind?