H. Paul Grice’s Lecture Notes on Charles S. Peirce’s Theory of Signs

This document provides a transcription of a significant unpublished manuscript by Paul Grice on Charles Peirce's Theory of Signs, deposited in the H. Paul Grice Papers, BANC MSS 90/135, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Grice's notes concern the theory of signs, semeiotic, of the American logician, scientist and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914). The material was probably intended as the text for lectures. The MS consists of 46 non-numbered sheets. The editors have prepared the transcription from a copy of the original manuscript located in the Bancroft Library.