hold, is merely to express a belief, usually but not always hoping or intending or expecting that one's audience will come to share the belief. (When we inform people of things by telling them those things, we normally expect that informing to work by what informal logicians call "authority": our hear- ers take our word for what we are saying and believe it because we do.) Yet as Grice grants and Schiffer emphasizes (p. 43), Conclusion of argument is not alleviated by either the first or the second revision. More generally, not all cases of communication succeed because the audience takes the speaker's word. Recall the geometrical proof. For an example closer to home, Grice himself has communicated his theory of meaning to us, but not by virtue of having intended us to accept it on the strength of his say-so. It is true that we have come to believe that Grice believes his theory of meaning, so the
circumstances in the case, unknown to the society of Hertfordshire; her mild and steady candour always pleaded for allowances, and urged the possibility of mistakes--but by everybody else Mr. Darcy was condemned as the worst of men. Chapter 25 After a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity, Mr. Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday. The pain of separation, however, might be alleviated on his side, by preparations for the reception of his bride; as he had reason to hope, that shortly after his return into Hertfordshire, the day would be fixed that was to make him the happiest of men. He took leave of his relations at Longbourn with as much solemnity as before; wished his fair cousins health and happiness again, and promised their father another letter of thanks. On the following Monday, Mrs. Bennet had the pleasure of receiving her brother and his
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