I 26
Grice/Avramidis: Grice view should be understood as a conceptual analysis, not as reductionism. - Not as physicalism. - Grice wants a reconciliation with Frege and Davidson.
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Philosophy of mind, >
Gottlob Frege, >
Donald Davidson, >
Paul Grice.
I 42f
Grice/Avramides: Thesis: the problem of sentence meaning (meaning of the whole utterance) takes precedence over the meaning of partial statements.
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Sentence meaning, >
Word meaning, >
Clauses, >
Compositionality, >
Frege-Principle, >
Subsententials.
Statement/Grice: is understood broadly, also signals etc.
Important argument: thus, the analysis ranges in a situation meaning before the timeless meaning (the standard meaning).
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Situation, >
Situation/Psychology, >
Speaker meaning, >
Speaker intention.
Only so can he equate"x means something" with "S means something (in a situation) with x".
1st Version; ... A response from the listener is induced ...
2nd Version: ... in addition: the listener must recognize the intention of the speaker.
I 44
3rd Version: in addition: the recognition of the speaker's intention must act as a reason for the belief of the listener.
Vs: there are still many counterexamples.
I 45
GriceVsGrice: counter-E.g. it is a difference whether I spontaneously frown in a situation or in order to express my displeasure to a person.
Important argument: exactly the same information is transmitted, no matter if the speaker has the intention to communicate or not. Then there is no reason to distinguish between natural and non-natural meaning.
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Natural meaning/non-natural meaning.
The difference has to do with what the frowning person can expect the listener to believe - but without intention no meaning - non-natural meaning (without intention) never sufficient for response.
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E.g. thumbscrews mean nothing.
I 67
Grice/Avramides: so far, the analysis is not sufficient for timeless (linguistic meaning. - Only for speaker-meaning.
Meaning/Grice: meaning is to be found both outside language and within.
I 68
Timeless meaning/Grice: disjunction of findings and about what people want to achieve with x. - This is also an effect etc. but not a practice.
It is not sufficient (because it may have a second meaning), and not necessary (it may have alternatives). - But it is a "procedure in the repertoire".
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Practise, >
Language behavior, >
Language community, >
Convention.
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Reductionist Gricean/Loar: This position risks to accept thinking without language.
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Thinking without language.
