Grice and Cavell: Must we explicate what we don't?

Speranza

“Must We Mean What We Say?” is a greatly expanded version of an essay presented as part of a symposium at a meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Coast Division.

The first part of that symposium was “On the Verification of Statements About Ordinary Language,” by Benson Mates.

Mates's and Cavell's essays were first published together in Inquiry, Vol. 1 and both are reprinted in V. C. Chappell, ed., Ordinary Language (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc.).