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1957

Meaning

H. P. Grice

Distinguishes what a sign naturally means from what a speaker means by using it, and analyses speaker-meaning as intending an audience to form a belief by means of recognising that very intention.

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On Sense and ReferenceGottlob Frege, 1892Two expressions can refer to the same thing while differing in sense — 'the morning star' and 'the evening star' both name Venus but express it differently — which is why identity statements can be informative rather than trivial.

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PragmaticsKepa Korta & John Perry, 2006Maps the disputed border between what a sentence's grammar and lexicon fix as its content and what context and inference add on top, arguing the two cannot be cleanly separated at the point most theories try to draw the line.

Filed under Philosophy of Language in Philosophy.