Disimplicature

Speranza

Dellsén (of all people) argues, contra Grice, that understanding requires neither justification nor belief. 

A Griceian should object that ridding understanding of justification and belief comes with the following costs. 

(i) No claim about the world can be inferred from what we understand. 

(ii) We run into either Moore’s paradox or certain disconcerting questions. 

(iii) Understanding does not represent the world. 

(iv) Understanding cannot take the central place in epistemology. 

(v) Understanding cannot be invoked to give an account of scientific progress. 

(vi) It is not clear how misunderstanding arises.

(vii) Etcetera.

"Etcetera," was, for Grice, "one of the Roman expressions that triggers the most interesting of implicatures! -- as Sidonius knew!" (Sidonius uses 'implicatura' but spells it it 'inplicatura'!)