Questions for Reading Response #6
Name:
Philosophy 360
Due: 19 March
O’Rourke
Please respond to the questions below after you have done your assigned reading. These
questions concern Lycan (Ch. 7) and Grice, Ch. 21. Please type your responses into this
document, print it out, and submit it with your name on Thursday, 19 March at the beginning of
class.
1. What is the difference between natural and non-natural meaning for Grice?
2. Drawing on Lycan, level one objection at Grice’s analysis of meaning.
3. True or False: On Grice’s view, non-natural meaning can be reduced to (i.e., analyzed in
terms of) natural meaning.
4. In your own words, express what you take Grice’s analysis of non-natural meaning to be.
Describe the view by filling this out: “A meantNN something by x” is roughly equivalent
to …
5. From the Grice reading, identify one substantive, philosophical question that intrigues
you and list it here.