Martha fell into a trance --> Martha fell. Grice on logical form

"Actions and events", p. 23:

"The statement that Martha fell into a ditch is an interesting one. From it it follows that Martha fell."

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"However, from the statement that Martha fell into a trance, it would be otiose to conclude that she fell".

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"It seems to me," Grice notes, "that the question whether the

LOGICAL FORM

of one or other of these initial statements is such as to conform to Davidson's pattern of analysis TURNS on the question whether the initial statement does or does not entail that Martha fell."

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"And that, this being so, an exposure of the

LOGICAL FORM

cannot explain, thought it may help to
classify, the inference should it in fact hold."

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