True colours

Speranza

(Sorry, I'll try to look for a better image -- I need access to the "Oxford dictionary of proverbs" -- under 'colour' -- also "Oxford dictionary of idiomatic expressions").

Jones was referring to Neale, Ling. and Phil.

Neale writes in a footnote:

"Taken this way, conventional implicature would seems very close to what Frege calls “coloring” or “tone.” According to Frege, the connectives ‘and’ and ‘but’ have the same sense (as do the nouns ‘horse’ and ‘steed’) but differ in coloring. Together with other features of Frege’s theory, this ensures that substituting ‘but’ for ‘and’ in a sentence will not lead to a difference in sense or a difference in
truth value (reference)."

Which is fascinating. For the record, Neale expanded on this in the Cosenza conference. I.e. "Legacy of Grice", or "Heritage of Grice", rather ("Legacy of Grice" is the Hall conference, i.e. the conference on Grice ed. by K. Hall). Cosenza edited this conference held at San Marino. Neale's contribution is on "Farbung" indeed.

And so on. Horn has become pretty 'obsessed' if that's not the word, with Frege of late. He is talking of F-implicatures, by which he means Fregean ones. Horn's German impresses me greatly. Frege's wording can be colourful, and Horn quotes from this Leeds professor's attempt to render Fregean prose anglophonically intelligible (and perhaps succeeding in the attempt!). Cheers.