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Sep 2023
46m 47s

Ep. 325: Paul Grice on Meaning and Conve...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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On "Meaning" (1957), "Utterer’s Meaning and Intentions" (1969), and "Logic and Conversation" (1975), featuring Mark, Seth, Dylan, and guest Steve Gimbell.

Grice tries to give a rigorous analysis of what it means for a speaker (as opposed to a sentence) to mean something in particular. Let the increasingly elaborate potential counter-examples commence!

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