H. P. Grice: This position has an obvious kinship with views of Scarle; one place where we differ is that 1 am not prepared to treat as primitive the notion of rule (whether constitutive or otherwise), nor that of convention (indeed I am dubious about the relevance of the latter notion to the analysis of meaning and other semantic concepts). The notion of a rule seems to me extremely unclear. and its clarification would be one result which I hope might be obtained, ultimately; from the line of investigation which I am pursuing in this paper.

 This position has an obvious kinship with views of Scarle; one place where we differ is that 1 am not prepared to treat as primitive the notion of rule (whether constitutive or otherwise), nor that of convention (indeed I am dubious about the relevance of the latter notion to the analysis of meaning and other semantic concepts). The notion of a rule seems to me extremely unclear. and its clarification would be one result which I hope might be obtained, ultimately; from the line of investigation which I am pursuing in this paper.