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the speakers mean in uttering the sentences when they do utter them. For Grice, a sentence's meaning is a function of individual speaker-meanings. 88 Theories of meaning But Grice concentrated his energies on the second stage of the reduc- tion. That speaker-meaning should be explicated in terms of mental states is even more plausible than the first stage. If, when I say "That was a bril- liant idea," what I mean is that Smedley's idea was very stupid, surely that speaker-meaning is something psychological, something about my mental state. Presumably it is a matter of my communicative intention, of what I am intending to convey to you. It does seem that, in general, individual commu- nicative acts are a matter of speakers' having complex intentions to produce various cognitive and other states in their hearers. Speaker-meaning Let us start with a plausible and perhaps needlessly specific version of Grice's