Computational Grice

Speranza

Jones:

"As far as analysis of the term "intelligence" is concerned, I am pretty confident that Grice would regard this kind of test [as proposed by Turing], and use of the word "intelligence" to refer to what is assessed by it, as one small element in a much richer fabric, and might find that the grounds for any reductionist thesis (that intelligence in other forms might be somehow reducible to intelligence by this particular metric) are slender."

Well, indeed, he would start with some linguistic botany.

Mikes says that Nuttall's dictionary has 'intelligent' as synonym with 'clever', and we know what Mikes thought about it!

Perhaps too Grice would explore 'compute'.

The idea that to compute is to reason is an old one. I think VARRO, in his linguistic explorations on the etymologies for Latin, noted that.

"ratio"

having to do with 'computation'. The idea was hot by the time of Hobbes when he wrote on "Computatio sive Logica".

So, while hardly a piece of 'ordinary language' (in which, qua ordinary language philosopher Grice is alleged to be interested), we may want to provide necessary and sufficient conditions for 'computing', too!