If you want a sports career, realize right now that it takes talent, sweat, hard work, and lots of luck to succeed. Take some time to think about the kind of person you are and the sorts of experiences you dream of having. Ask yourself: Am I passionate about this sport?
This volume, Grice's first hook, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Paul Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing.
Grice has, to be sure, provided philosophy with crucial ideas. His account of speaker-meaning is the standard that others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations.
If you want a sports career, realize right now that it takes talent, sweat, hard work, and lots of luck to succeed. Take some time to think about the kind of person you are and the sorts of experiences you dream of having. Ask yourself: Am I passionate about this sport?
