Grice writes,
"Do not be more informative than is required"
Yet, post-Linneaians wrote:
Homo sapiens sapiens.
Literally, "very sapiens". As if we needed a constant reminder of our superiority. Otiose.
"The implicature in Linnaeus's unwise choice of a term is that some 'homo' are NOT sapiens. What he may have meant by iterating 'sapiens' like that is anybody's guess".
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