Grice's quartette: formality and dictiveness at the crossroads

-- If 'dictiveness' and 'formality' ARE distinct criteria (for 'best-candidate' status for the 'centre' rather than the periphery of meaning) we should be able to combine them unashamedly.

So Grice does on pp. 361-361 of "Valediction". Two criteria give: four examples:

i. formal but nondictive.
ii. formal AND dictive.
iii. Dictive but informal
iv. Nondictive and informal.

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FIRST SCENARIO:


"The Chairman of the Berkeley Philosophy Department is in the Department office"

---- Most boring case: dictive AND formal.


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The others are more fun, but each should require an entry