Where Socrates And Grice Agree (Gorg. 495)

Ouk an eti met' emou hikanôs ta onta exetazois eiper para ta dokounta
sautôi ereis Gorg. 495

---- by JLS
------- for the Grice Circle

---- I AM TRYING TO retrieve some of my posts elsewhere to the club, and feel I need to refer to this title, since it echoes G. Georgi's online study, "Where Socrates and Grice Agree", presented to the Speculative Society at the Philosophy Department at the prestigious USC -- which has so many notable Griceian associations, e.g. Loar. Georgi dwells on the Protagoras and how exclusively Gricean Socrates sounds when referring to things like Qualitas (qua conversational category).

G. Georgi focuses in some detail on Gorg. 495

Ouk an eti met' emou hikanôs ta onta exetazois eiper para ta dokounta
sautôi ereis

variously translated as:

"It will be impossible to continue
our
search for truth together
if
you are
going to make statements
you don't really believe"

Or:

"You can no longer be a fit partner
with me in probing the truth
if you are going to
speak
against your own convinctions"

Georgi finds in Socrates a proposer of a first proto-Gricean Maxim of
Quality where 'eironia' _has_ to be regarded as a mere figure of speech.

And I agree!