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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Gricean reasoning

There are quite a few google hits for "Gricean rationality" simpliciter and sometimes in collocation "Gricean rationality model", where "Gricean" surely qualifies Model rather than Rationality. Grice would have seen "Gricean" rationality as otiose as "ichthyological necessity": one rationality too many.

There are good reasons for using "Gricean reason", though, including by J. Woods.

Finally, on "Gricean reasoning". e.g.:

[PDF] Against Grammatical Computation of Scalar Implicatures - [
B Russell - 2006
21 Oct 2006 ... provides arguments, counter to the claims of these authors, that Gricean reason- ing can account for the implicatures of certain complex ...
www.semanticsarchive.net/Archive/jBiMDU1Y/russell.jos.pdf

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