P. F. Strawson's review of H. P. Grice's WoW -- repr. in Strawson's "Philosophical Writings"

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

The review highlights aspects of 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 terms — a project originally and brilliantly sketched in the 1948 essay ‘Meaning’ (reproduced in WoW), and subsequently elaborated in a series of lectures and articles.

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