Grice's Mixed Bag (Was: Dictiveness) (WoW:367): five items out of it

WoW:367 --

Grice lists four items as coming out of the bag of 'dictiveness':


i. --- a measure or ardor, which might be appropriate, or again not,
-------- on behalf of a thesis.


ii. ---- a conscientious reluctance
--------- to see one's statement as falsified or unconfirmed.


iii. ---- an excessive preoccupation with what
--------- is actually (or potentially) nonconcontroversial
--------- background material.

iv ------ an overindulgence
--------- in caution with respect to to strength
--------- to be attributed to an idea which one propounds.

v ------- a deviousness or indirectness
--------- of expression [cfr. 'be direct']
--------- which helps to obsucre even the
--------- identity of such an idea.

Well, these five (carefully phrased) items "might well be
thought to have little in common". But they don't.

They have a non-little in common, and in uncommon, too.