The Abduction of Grice

Bach wrote an operetta which he entitled, "Iphigenia in Brooklyn". He also wrote an "abduction".

My friend M. Dascal thinks that 'abduction' is an important Gricean concept. I disagree.

For Grice, reasoning is reasoning is reasoning. All that Hanson said about 'abduction' versus deduction and induction, is best understood along "eschatological" trans-categorial lines, which are too general to please most pragmaticists. But Grice was not one of them. He was a _philosopher_, to trust him to be _general_.

Cheers,

JL