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Professor of philosophy Karen Lewis published the research paper "Metasemantics Without Semantic Intentions" this past November in the journal Inquiry. Lewis investigates metasemantics, or the study of how languages' meanings are founded, through the lens of a conversation's context rather than a speaker's intention. The paper asks, "How does a context determine the value of context-sensitive expressions?" Lewis then considers how adjectives require a context to be established in a conversation.