In and Out of Grice

--- Grice WoW:363 plays with 'in' and 'out' when it comes to 'formality':

Re: formality:

"we can foresee a distinction between
an inner range of characteristics
which belong directly to the 'conventional'
meaning of a signifying expression, and
an outer range of characteristics which,
although not themselves DIRECTLY part
of of the 'conventional meaning' of a given
signifying expression are invariably, perhaps
as a matter of natural necessity,
concomitant with other characterstics
whch DO directly belong to the conventional
meaning of the signifying expression."

Enough to want to say, 'bugger the dictionary!'.

---- ("Let me go by intuitions, since I won't care TWO hoots for what Oxford tells mw the 'conventional signification' of what I say is!").

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