What are Grice's two major contributions to Phil of Lang?

A theory of meaning: A theory of conversation: Filling in the part of a Fregean theory of communication over and above sense. Connecting language to whats communicated.

What is the problem with Grice's first formulation of meaning? Ie. ‘S means something by X’ ‘For some response r, S intends the utterance of X to produce r in audience A by means of recognition of this intention’

Devient causal changes need to be ruled out by getting clear on what 'produce' means. Its not just that r is caused by X. 'Snapping fingers'.

What is the problem with? Grice 2. ‘S means something by X’ ‘For some response r, S utters X intending (i) that the utterance produce r in audience A (ii) that A recognize that S intends (i) (iii) that (ii) provides (part of) A’s reason for r.

This is still subject to deviant chain counterexamples. We need to rule out the relation being merely causal between the production of X and A's recognition and response. Here the recognition could have just been caused by the sentence.

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What are Grice's two major contributions to Phil of Lang?	A theory of meaning: A theory of conversation: Filling in the part of a Fregean theory of communication over and above sense. Connecting language to whats communicated.
What is the problem with Grice's first formulation of meaning? Ie. ‘S means something by X’ <-> ‘For some response r, S intends the utterance of X to produce r in audience A by means of recognition of this intention’	Devient causal changes need to be ruled out by getting clear on what 'produce' means. Its not just that r is caused by X. 'Snapping fingers'.
What is the problem with? Grice 2. ‘S means something by X’ <-> ‘For some response r, S utters X intending (i) that the utterance produce r in audience A (ii) that A recognize that S intends (i) (iii) that (ii) provides (part of) A’s reason for r.	This is still subject to deviant chain counterexamples. We need to rule out the relation being merely causal between the production of X and A's recognition and response. Here the recognition could have just been caused by the sentence.

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