Grice's Alignment (with Hamburgers and Truth)

Grice, WoW: 367

"Strong support for some
idea [ardor], a distate
fro having one's already
issued statements discredited
[the anti-Popper in us still
lives in us], an
unexciting harmony the function
of which is merely to establish
a reference, and a tentative
or veiled formulation of a thesis"

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what do these items form the mixed bag of dictiveness have in common?

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Well, what they do have in common
may be that perhaps they

"may be seen as
embodying

DESCENDING

degrees of intensity
in the [utterer's] ALIGNMENT
to whatever idea he is propounding"

--- On the assumption, I'll add, that he IS propounding one. Or not