Meaning / Bedeutung

Herbert Paul Grice's groundbreaking essay from 1957 serves as one of the most important reference points for debates about the nature of meaning. Grice offers a semantics that is based on intentions, focusing on the recipient's reaction to a communication. The essay thus represents a significant orientation point for the philosophy of language, as well as for semiotics, cognitive science, and linguistics. This foundational text is presented here alongside the original text in a new translation, accompanied by a commentary that reconstructs the philosophical problem and traces its influence up to the present day. The series "Great Papers in Philosophy" features groundbreaking essays in philosophy: - A verbatim, citable reproduction of the text (with the foreign language original on the left and a new translation on the right). - A historical context of philosophy: How was the problem viewed in the past? What change did the essay bring about? How is it viewed today? - An analysis of the text or a reconstruction of its argumentative structure, followed by a section on the author and a commented bibliography.