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Meaning and Evidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

John C. Bigelow
Affiliation:
Victoria University of Wellington

Extract

What is it for a person to mean something by an utterance? Until recently, few philosophers have explicitly set themselves the task of answering this question. Of those who have, most have proposed answers which in one way or another analyze the act of meaning by appeal to the utterer's intentions.

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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1976

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5 See for instance Grice, “Meaning”, pp. 385–386.

6 See for instance Armstrong, “Meaning and Communication”, pp. 443–444.

7 “Utterer's Meaning and Intentions”, pp. 152–165; also clause “III” on p. 176.

8 Meaning, p. 30 ff.

9 The Meaning-Nominalist Strategy”, Foundations of Language, 10 (1973), pp. 141168; also unpublished work which should appear soon as a book.Google Scholar