Abstract
This paper has the following structure: first, Paul Grice’s original account of non-natural meaning (in “Meaning”) is critically discussed; second, Stephen Neale’s analysis (in “Paul Grice and the Philosophy of Language”) is critically discussed; third, Kent Bach and Robert Harnish’s analysis of linguistic communication is critically discussed; lastly, due to considerations detailed in the previous section, doubts are raised about the viability of intentional based semantics. In discussing Neale and Bach and Harnish, two novel counter-examples are employed to show their analyses to be inadequate.
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Haas, Brian
(2023)
"Critical Reflections on Intentions and Linguistic Communication,"
International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities: Vol. 8:
Iss.
2, Article 8.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7710/2155-4838.1149
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/ijurca/vol8/iss2/8
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