Footnotes to McBride

I use (not used, since I still do) to say that "pragmatics is footnotes to Grice" (echoing Whitehead, metaphysics is footnotes to Plato). Perhaps that should read McBride. From the wiki, 'implicature':

"The specialized term implicature was coined by Patrick McBride as a technical term in pragmatics for certain kinds of inferences that are drawn from statements without the additional meanings in logic and informal language use of "implication"."

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Actually, it was Sidonius. He used 'implicaturis' in his Epistle (Loeb Classical Library). There is an entry, 'implicatura', defined as 'entanglement', in Short/Lewis, online, "Latin Dictionary".