Grice's three lectures on 'Trying' at Brandeis -- "I did my best to try to impress them!"

"Trying" (1963) A set of three lectures at Brandeis. Meghan Griffiths has recently taken up some of the Oxonian dispute about Austin´s ifs and cans, as seen in early reflections by Nowell-Smith. 

Grice was concerned with providing an implicature-free analysis of "try". 

Consider his apt remarks in WoW:ii. 

Harman provides a counterexample. 

Smith tried to topple the wall (as he exercised his muscles) assuming he would never succeed in so doing.