One thing Grice has to be given credit for: Martians. He introduced Martian (doppelgaenger thought-experiments) in the philosophy literature.
In "Some remarks about the senses", he describes Martians as having not one pair of eyes -- as homo sapiens do -- (it's odd that eyes, in all animals, came in pairs -- Aristotle noted something similar about legs. There are no animals with just one leg, or three legs).
Rather, Martians, for Grice, have TWO pairs of eyes.
Grice wants to say that experience, as we know it, is as we know it. Martians may have different _experiences_. Our use of 'see' (we see with our 'eyes') is functionaliist and anatomical.
In WoW:Retrospective Epilogue Grice considers ears. If we were to be told that we can see with our ears, we wouldn't understand what is being said to us.
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Martians, if they exist, possibly could NOT 'implicate' as WE do.
Etc.
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