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Sperber Dan and Deirdre Wilson Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Oxford: Basil Blackwood 1986. Pp. viii + 279.

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Sperber Dan and Deirdre Wilson Relevance: Communication and Cognition. Oxford: Basil Blackwood 1986. Pp. viii + 279.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Charles Travis
Charles Travis*
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Illinois State University, Normal, IL 67167, U.S.A.
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , June 1990 , pp. 277 - 304
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1 Delivered at Harvard University in 1967.

2 I argued this anti-Gricean point in my ‘On What Is Strictly Speaking True,’ Canadian Journal of Philosophy 15 (1985) 187-229.

3 See his ‘Demonstratives,’ in Almog, J., Perry, J. and Wettstein, H., eds., Themes From Kaplan (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1988).Google Scholar

4 In objecting to contextual definitions. See especially his discussion of defining ranges of values in the Grundgesetze. For a good discussion of the problems, see Dummett, M., The Interpretation of Frege's Philosophy (London: Duckworth 1981), chapter 19.Google Scholar

5 As opposed to ‘said.’ Note the aspect, as in, ‘I was repairing my watch when it suddenly flew into a thousand pieces.'