PHILOS 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Michael Dummett, If And Only If
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Lec 3 - criticisms of grice"s account of meaning. Readings for next week: frege sense and reference (p209-218), dummett language and. Student answer exam question to instructor: weakened version of (a): to induce in s"s audience the belief that s believes that p b. i. b. ii. Objection mcdowell, primary goal of communication is exchange of information about the world, not about our mental states. : i intend to use words in accordance with the conventions governing their use in a language. c. i. Or is this whole example much more like a performance? (and as such, possibly devoid of meaning) c. i. 1. Grice is sad because this makes convention primary over intention, can no longer use speaker meaning to explain other meaning - cannot be the fundamental notion of meaning e. i. 1. a. Grice cannot accept this modification because it relies on the notion of conventional meaning in explaining the notion of speaker meaning.
