PHILOS 135 Chapter 1: Grice and Searle Notes
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According to grice, someone means p by x if and only if they satisfy three conditions. (1) the speaker utters1 x intending to induce in the audience the belief that p. this is to say that if i utter. Searle"s counterexample of the american soldier in world war ii is supposed to show that grice"s conditions are not sufficient for a speaker"s meaning that x by p. in the example, an. American soldier says a line of poetry in german to his captors (who do not speak german), intending to inculcate in them a belief that he is a german officer. He wants his captors to recognize that it is his intention to instill that belief. Moreover, he intends for them to acquire this belief by way of his saying the line of german poetry.
