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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Timothy Nutty thinks Grice writes more clearly than Derrida

"Donald Davidson's approach to meaning can be understood as a synthesis of the divergent positions of Grice and Derrida. I argue, following Davidson, that intentions should be afforded a central role in determining meanings, but that this centrality does not mean that intentions absolutely fix the meaning of a language act. My central claim is that Davidson, although relying on a Gricean view of speaker intentions and affording truth a central role, does not violate any of Derrida's primary theses about truth and the nature of meaning."

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