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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Him Buttering The Toast in The Bathroom

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Grice example:

Socrates is

1. a man
2. a fat man
3. a greedy fat man.

(PPQ vol. 67, p. 4).

Cfr.

1. Bill butters the toast.
2. Bill butters the toast in the bathroom.

Grice comments:

"One moves from 2 to 1, which is entailed by 2 from which it originated"!

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