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Grice, Herbert Paul (1913–90)


Subject Philosophy

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405106795.2004.x


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English philosopher of language, metaphysics, and ethics, born in Birmingham, taught at University of Oxford and Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley. Grice provided an account of meaning and communication that is based on the priority of speaker's meaning to linguistic meaning and provides a major rival to truth-conditional theories of meaning. His distinction between saying and implying, where implying is governed by conventions of conversational implicature, has wide application, from the interpretation of logical connectives to the philosophy of perception, and has influenced understanding of the boundary between semantics and pragmatics. His main works are included in Studies in the Ways of Words (1989). ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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