MEANING AND BELIEF

Abstract

For decades, the Gricean analysis has enjoyed the status of being the orthodox method of reducing the semantic to the psychological. However, it has known weaknesses that have proved difficult to address. This essay thus argues for a rival analysis of speaker meaning, the CSM analysis, which also reduces the semantic to the psychological, but manages to avoid the pitfalls of the Gricean analysis by grounding semantics in the speaker?s primarily in the speaker?s beliefs, rather than intentions.