Grice, cited by Dummett in "Systematic Philosophy", Truth and Other Enigmas, p. 445

Speranza


Dummett on "conversational implicature" -- the "Systematic Philosophy" quote, "Truth & Other Enigmas", p. 445.
by JLS
or the GC

NOT THAT THIS IS OVERWHELMINGLY illuminating but for the sake of googling here is Dummett's exact quote:

The paragraph begins:

"Naturally, so grotesquely

false a methodology could not

be consistently

adhered to by intelligent people."

---

"In consequence, in place

of the

general

*semantic* concepts

that had been expelled in

the

original determination

to pay attention to

nothing but the actual _"use"_

of particular sentences,

*new* _ones_, such as

the celebrated notion of

presupposition [Strawson],

or that of conversational implicature [Grice],

or Austin's distinction between
illocutionary and perlocutionary force,

and so on, were invented by the

"ordinary-language" philosophers

themselves;

and, in the process,

"ordinary-language" philosophy

ceased to exist,

almost without anyone noticing

that it had."

----

"An era had ended. Not

with a bang

but a whimper.

And the moment

was propitious for the American

counterattack."

(I wrote: "If these are not the words from somone who Austin never invited to join in his "Sat. Mngs." I don't know which are.")