Griceren adibide galdua. Esanahi naturalari buruzko probaren gabeziak

Abstract

We found a curious fact about the second of the three examples at the very beginning of Grice's "Meaning" (1957). He introduces it as an example of natural meaning, but he never uses it again, neither in that paper nor in "Meaning Revisited" (1982), devoted to the same topic. Furthermore, the example doesn't meet the first and foremost criterion that Grice sets for natural meaning: factivity. The insertion of that example in "Meaning" is an error, we contend; an error that was never corrected in the multiple editions of the paper; a mistake that, besides its historic importance, might have conceptual relevance too.