What does 'talk' mean in 'We can talk to one another?'
It means our participation in the functioning language game we are presently engaged in (with all its relevant contiguities), within which we are interlocutors. And it only means this - there isn't some further way of defining what we mean by 'talk'. No other account can be complete or unambiguous (for Kripkean reasons).
This means that a belief that we cannot talk is internally incoherent - it is a belief that the functioning language game in which we are engaged is not a functioning language game.
It is not just that we cannot reliably attribute this believe, we cannot coherently attribute it.
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