Stanley Louis Cavell on Herbert Paul Grice in "Must We Mean What We Say?"

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Cavell writes:

"I am not, of course, denying that what you say depends upon what you intend to be saying. I am, rather, denying that intending is to be understood as a wanting or wishing. And I am suggesting that you could not mean one thing rather than another ( = you could not mean anything) by a given word on a given occasion without relying on a (general) meaning of that word which is independent of your intention on that occasion (unless what you are doing is giving the word a special meaning). For an analysis of meaning in terms of intention, see Grice, op. cit."