Ep. 325: Paul Grice on Meaning and Conversation (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Oh my, Shopify.
0:03.4	Sell online today.
0:12.7	Your listings with partially examined life, a podcast by some guys were at one point
0:16.1	said on doing philosophy for living with them thought better of it.
0:18.8	Our question for episode 325 is something like,
0:21.6	what does the word of meaning mean?
0:23.8	When we read some articles by Herbert Paul Greiss, meaning,
0:26.9	from 1957, utters, meaning, and intentions,
0:30.0	from 1969 and logic and conversation from 1975.
0:34.0	For more information, please see partiallyexaminelife.com.
0:37.6	This is Mark Linson-Wire in Madison, Wisconsin,
0:39.8	perhaps intentionally confusing you listeners with this sentence,
0:42.9	but not communicating my intention that you should be confused
0:45.6	with the expectation that your recognition of that intention
0:48.0	will play a part in your concept, clinically, being confused.
0:51.1	This is Seth Paskin, desperately trying to connect one of my timeless meanings.
0:57.0	To my utterance here right now.
0:59.3	This is Dylan Casey, realizing the curious fact that merely causal effects of
1:04.2	something said have no meaning in Madison, Wisconsin.
1:08.4	And our special guest, I'm Steve Gimbal.
1:11.6	I am a professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College and delighted to be with you.
1:16.3	Thank you so much. And on two days notice,
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