Palin's intention, despite what critics say, was clear enough: peaceful Muslims were politely ('pls') asked to refudiate a mosque ("Cordoba House" -- the name seems politically incorrect).
A semanticist would argue that to ask politely to refudiate a mosque does not hold 'water', when you have not provided its truthiness or truth-conditions for the state of affairs that has to be accomplished to grant Palin that wish.
A pragmaticist would counter-argue that when utterer uttered 'refudiate', utterer meant refudiate. To ask for a componential analysis of each 'lexeme' we utter seems too demanding, and indeed wrong. Or something.
The question is that Palin did believe the mosque had to be refudiated. What she 'said' is less important than what she did. Any Griceian or Austinian would agree with her there.
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