PHIL 359 Final: Meaning and Reference
27 Jul 2016
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Explain and evaluate grice"s account in meaning" of the di erence between between telling someone something and just letting them know". In meaning", grice makes an number of distinctions concerning the way communication is achieved amongst users of language. The rst distinction he makes is between two senses of meaning: natural and non-natural. Grice expresses natural meaning as the innate product of certain indicators. This can be logically deconstructed to : x meant that p and, x means that p entail p. This type of meaning can be contrasted by the following form: x means that p, and x meant that p do not entail p. In making this distinction, grice wishes to focus on the latter, non-natural, sense of meaning - also referred to as speaker"s meaning. He introduces a pragmatic dimension to understanding the state of communicative a airs and expresses non-natural meaning as abiding conditions of intention, recognition and relevance on particular occasions.
