2012
DOI: 10.1002/tht3.20
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Meaning, Expression, and Evidence

Abstract: Grice's (1957) analysis of non-natural meaning generated a huge industry, where new analyses were put forward to respond to successively more complex counterexamples. Davis (2003) offers a novel and refreshingly simple analysis of meaning in terms of the expression of belief, where (roughly) an agent expresses the belief that p just in case she performs a publicly observable action with the intention that it be an indication that she occurrently believes that p. I argue that Davis's analysis fails to capture t… Show more

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“…But, as the foregoing example makes clear, one can provide a clue that p without expressing the belief that p , hence, without meaning that p . (Expression) fails.” (, p. 155).…”
Section: IImentioning
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“…But, as the foregoing example makes clear, one can provide a clue that p without expressing the belief that p , hence, without meaning that p . (Expression) fails.” (, p. 155).…”
Section: IImentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Crucially, this is so, even if, by his own lights, no particular clue that he offers will put the police in a position to infer what that belief is. (, pp. 154–55.…”
Section: IImentioning
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