P. F. Strawson, Review of H. P. Grice's "WoW" in Strawson's "Philosophical Writings"

P. F. Strawson reviews Studies in the Way of Words, by H. P. Grice. 

Strawson's review highlights aspects of H. P. Grice's work which constitute a substantial and enduring contribution to philosophical theory. 

Most prominent among these are two contributions which are highlighted. 

First, there is the attempt to give a reductive analysis of the concept of 'meaning' in psychological (strictly, 'intentional' terms — a project originally and brilliantly sketched in the 1948 essay ‘Meaning’ for the Oxford Philosophical Society (reproduced in WoW), and subsequently elaborated in a series of lectures and articles.

Second, there is the development of the theory of the conversational *implicatum*, which has rightly won a secure place in philosophical theory, on both of its necessarily connected semantic and pragmatic sides.