How mixed was my bag? -- the obscurest 'implicature' that wasn't

--- WoW:367

speaks of

i. ardor
ii. relunctance
iii. preocuppation
iv. overindulgence
v. deviousness

as viewable "as spefifying
different ways in which
an [utterer's] ALIGNMENT
with an idea or thesis
may be displayed or obscured"

--- cfr. 'be perspicuous' -- his ironic way to simplify his former "clarity".

Grice goes on:

"Since in communication all must
be public, if an idea or thesis
is too heavily obscured, it can
no longer be regarded as having
been propounded."

Cfr. the most recherche implicata:


"How is Smith getting on in his new job at the bank?"

"His mother is from Finland."

------ To rely on flouts of the maxim of relation, for example, is a breach of this.