Grice on Meaning: The Ultimate Counter-Example

Abstract

Grice concedes (on 151 of [3]) that the definiendum of primary interest is (A): By uttering x U meant that p. Nevertheless he devoted most of the 1957 paper and a considerable portion of the present one to a treatment of (B), By uttering x U meant something. Then, elaborating on that treatment he proceeds to an analysis of (A). For the moment I shall deal with (B) and I shall discuss the initial unrefined definiens (taken over from the 1957 paper) because my objections will apply equally to the refined versions. The initial definition is (more or less, 151 of [3]):

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