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he felt, George replied by uttering . . . "Glyting elly beleg". What he
meant by [that], he later informed us, was that he felt fine. He said that,
at the time, he had somehow believed that ["Glyting elly beleg"] was
synonymous with "I feel fine" and that everyone knew this.
(pp. 45; by now you will have grasped that George leads a life
more interesting than yours or mine)
A man suddenly cried out "Gleeg gleeg gleeg!", intending thereby to
produce a certain effect in an audience by means of the recognition of his
intention. He wished to make his audience believe that it was snowing
in Tibet. Of course he did not produce the effect he was after since no
one recognized what his intention was. Nonetheless that he had such
an intention became clear. Being deemed mad, he was turned over to
Psychological theories: Grice's program 93
a psychiatrist