"A great deal more than that!"

In "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" Alice says,

"I only said if".

"You said a great deal more than that".

I like to think that the whole point of "Logic and Conversation", as written by Grice, is a reply to Strawson.

Note that of all the examples in WoW:I, there is only ONE that touches on Logic. It is Strawson's idea that

"p ) q"

is not a good representation of what we do with "if".

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The result of the polemic is vague. Grandy is the one that best expounded it, when Grandy gave a lecture on Grice two years after Grice died. "Legacy of Grice", 1990, Berkeley.

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Grandy suggests, and I follow that suggestion, that the polemic boils down to the conversational vs. conventional implicature distinction.

Grice wants to say, and Strawson agreed on that ("If and )") that for Strawson, the inferrability that we attach to 'if' is a matter of conventional implicature. For Grice it is merely conversational. Etc.