Abstract:
"In this paper, I lend novel support to H. P. Grice's account of [utterer] meaning (GA[U]M) by blunting the force of a significant objection."
"Schiffer has argued that in order to make [GAUM] sufficient, one must add restrictions that are 'psychologically impossible' to fulfill, thereby making GAUM untenable."
"In what follows, I explain the elements of GAUM that require it to invoke these psychologically unrealizable restrictions. I then accept Schiffer's criticism, but modify its significance to GAUM."
"I argue that the problem that Schiffer notes is not a reason to reject GAUM, but a reason to embrace it."
-- such is what I call Gricean love.
"GAUM shows that meaning is best understood as an absolute concept -- an unrealizable ideal limit. Taking some inspiration from contextualist theories of knowledge attribution, I argue that my version of GAUM offers a useful contextualist account of 'meaning' attribution. Hence, pragmatic theories of meaning and communication should not wholly exclude GAUM from their theorizing, at least not for the reasons that are commonly given."
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