Enriching the logical form of loose speakers

4 examples by Grice:

"I spent last summer in Persia; they are very dissatisfied with the present regime".

------ "they" -- who?

Grice proposes: "The Persians, of course".



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Example 2:

"A car went whizzing by me and scraped my fender; but HE didn't stop".

He--who?

"The driver"

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Example 3:

"Jones's views on the immortality of the soul
filled many pages in _Mind_ but it was the Oxford
University which in the end published it."

"It"? Grice's gloss: "It = Jones's presentation of his views".

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Example 4:

"His leg was cancerous; he contracted it in Africa."

Grice's gloss: "It = the disease cancer).