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have shown extraordinary fortitude and skill in modifying Grice's original
account in such a way as to accommodate all the foregoing problem cases
and more, with the result that, despite the profusion of objections, a com-
plicated(!) version of the theory remains tenable. And it is generally agreed
that speaker-meaning must be in some way a matter of speakers' intentions
and other mental states. But now we must turn back to the first stage of the
Gricean program, the reduction of sentence meaning to speaker-meaning.
Sentence meaning
As may surprise you after you have read the previous section, Grice's (1968)
construction of sentence meaning out of speaker-meaning is elaborate and
full of tricky details. Rather than plunge into them, I shall reveal some
obstacles in advance. Then I shall only outline the way(s) in which Grice
tries to surmount them.
It would be natural to start by supposing that a given English sentence