Grice´s Candour

L. M. Tapper may explain or care to explain what Grice might have meant by "candour", elsewhere. In a recent discussion elsewhere (Bayne´s forum) I have been quoting from

Grice,
Oxford lectures,
1966

-- These predate the William James, and they were more "parochial" as it were. The charm of them, it seems, is that the maxims, etc. are never so "numbered". They involve candour, benevolence, desiderata, self-love, etc.

In 1961, Grice had played with "maxims" of various types -- Bayne´s site for 1961 reprint.

And indeed, since 1952 the philosophical community was made aware of what "Mr. H. P. Grice" was up to when Strawson cares to include "a rule of linguistic conduct" as made clear to him by "the tutor from whom I never ceased to learn about logic" -- footnote.

Now, Tapper speaks of a gangster, Kid Sally, as not abiding by "the maxim of Quantity".

It seems to me that people (I don´t mean Tapper, necessarily -- I add "necessarily" because elseway he´ll think I´ll think he´s not people) should be more careful with

CATEGORIES.

While Grice was jocular about this, the categories ARE (and cannot be but) four. Indeed, Quantitaet, Qualitaet, Relation, and Modus -- I`m using the source for Kemp Smith.

The structure in terms of

maxims

i.e. supermaxim or supra-maxim, as I prefer

submaxim

and maxim

seems of less import.

Indeed, it would seem that under the Category of Quantitaet, Grice places two maxims (not really submaxims, since there´s no supramaxim). Under Qualitaet, he cares to postulate a supramaxim and two submaxims or maxims. Under Relation it´s one supramaxim. And under Modus, it´s one supramaxim and 4 submaxims.

Counting them (before they hatch) you get 10 -- the decalogue. (After adding one maxim to the Modus category apres WoW:xvii)

Etc.