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Friday, January 29, 2010

"mean to" as meanᴺ

This should better read

meanᴺ

meanᴺᴺ

--
i.e. by M. O. R. (Modified Occam's Razor)

mean-N = (i.e. iff) mean-NN

-- I discovered how happy when I told Martinich about it. He said, 'good work if you can get it'.

For he was trying in his _Dialectica_ paper to prove Grice wrong on a couple things.

And Grice _seems_ inconsistent, slightly.

He proposes

mean-nn iff mean-n (i.e. intend, 'mean-to')

So, if it's all a continuum, why bother with the distinction of what he unashamedly called 'senses' in his early "Meaning"?

-- the equation, 'mean-to' is a case of 'natural' meaning, from "Meaning" -- repr. in WoW. Etc.

1 comment:

  1. Austin, like Prichard, love a 'that'-clause, so it all boils down, figuratively, to meaning-that and meaning-to. Not too different from Jason Stanley's knowing-that and knowing-how -- _but_ different!

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