TY - JOUR T1 - How to Make the Concepts Clear: Searle’s Discussion with Derrida JF - Organon F Y1 - 2012 A1 - Koblížek, Tomáš KW - background KW - concept KW - linguistic meaning KW - speaker’s meaning KW - utterance AB - The first part of the paper deals with the key question of the Searle-Derrida debate, namely, with the question of conceptual “exactness” and applicability of concepts to facts. I argue that Derrida makes a strict distinction between the exactness in the realm of concepts and the exactness in the realm of facts. Supposing that it is not correct to argue against him – as Searle does – that concepts cannot be exact because there are no strict boundaries between facts. The second part of the paper deals with a distinction used by John Searle: The distinction between linguistic meaning and speaker’s meaning. According to Searle linguistic meaning is constituted outside a particular context of use whereas speaker’s meaning is embedded in a particular situation. I argue this distinction is problematic as far as any meaning is constituted in a particular utterance and in a particular context of use. IS - 2 VL - 19 SP - 161-169 UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/prilohy/2012/2/161-169.pdf U2 - Papers U3 - 161169 U5 - 1 TI - How to Make the Concepts Clear: Searle’s Discussion with Derrida ER -