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- Title
Grice's Meaning Project.
- Authors
Davis, Wayne A.
- Abstract
Grice's meaning project was to explain what 'non-natural' meaning is by defining expression meaning in terms of speaker meaning and speaker meaning in terms of intention. I review Grice's attempt to carry out this project by examining the particular definitions he proposed. These have numerous intractable problems, which led scholars to conclude that the basic project was flawed. I briefly show how the expression theory of meaning I have developed solves the problems by offering alternative definitions of speaker and expression meaning. The most important additional theoretical resources needed are convention, occurrent thought as a mental state distinct from belief, and thought structure. Grice's project is still the most promising approach to explaining what linguistic meaning is.
- Subjects
MEANING (Philosophy); GRICE, Paul; SEMANTICS (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY; PHILOSOPHY of linguistics; EXPRESSION (Philosophy)
- Publication
Teorema, 2007, Vol 26, Issue 2, p41
- ISSN
0210-1602
- Publication type
Article