 It is evident that this proposal brings us to the territory of vector-based semantics in computational linguistics, while, on the other hand, accounts based on intention- and context-driven adjustment such as Recanati’s and Jaszczolt’s pull in the direction of post-Gricean pragmatics. But as Sections 1.1–1.8 demonstrate, the two traditions are not necessarily incompatible. Lexical salience and radical contextualism about the lexicon point in the same direction as distributional accounts in computational semantics: we have probabilities of certain meanings because these are meanings derived from the ‘company a word keeps’, to adapt Firth’s (1957: 11) famous dictum. All in all, content words are strongly context-dependent – to the extent that perhaps indexicality ought to be viewed not as a defining feature of some lexical items but as a gradable feature of the entire lexicon. But what counts as indexicality is a separate theoretical question that cannot be pursued here.