We are considering if Grice's speech is typical of English. After all, 94% of English speakers use 'if' UNLIKE Grice wants us to use it via 'explicature'.
Surely, that's an empirical issue. I would think we may need to consider for each operator:
'and'
'or'
and
'if'
the 'metiers' they are supposed to fulfil. The metier of 'if' extends the truth-table of 'if'. So Grice is willing to say that it's more like a 'division of labour'. We SAY things; we implicate (OTHER) things.
He just got irritated when, of all people, his student, Strawson (as he then was) got into 'what is explicated' part of what Grice thought should rather be left 'implicated'.
When Strawson modified his position and thought the issue imported the 'conversational' vs. 'conventional' implicature fringe, it was too late. Grice was onto other things -- the conception of value.
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