Dummett on "conversational implicature" -- the "Systematic Philosophy" quote, "Truth & Other Enigmas", p. 445.

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NOT THAT THIS IS OVERWHELMINGLY illuminating but for the sake of googling here is Dummett's exact quote:

The paragraph begins:

"Naturally, so grotesquely false
a methodology could not be consistently
adhered to by intelligent people."

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"In consequence, in place of the
general semantic concepts
that had been expelled in
the original determination
to pay attention to nothing but
the actual "use"
of particular sentences,
new ones, such as
the celebrated notion of
presupposition,
or that of conversational implicature,
or Austin's distinction between
illocutionary and perlocutionary force,
and so on, were invented by the
"ordinary-language" philosophers
themselves; and, in the process,
"ordinary-language" philosophy
ceased to exist,
almost without anyone noticing
that it had."

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"An era had ended. Not with a bang
but a whimper. And the moment
was propitious for the American
counterattack."

---- If these are not the words from somone who Austin never invited to join in his "Sat. Mngs." I don't know which are.