Disimplicature

Speranza

Can I be wrong about my own beliefs? 

Or more specifically:

Can Grice be wrong about his having a pain in his tail?

More precisely: Can I falsely believe that I believe that p? 

Grice might argue that the answer is negative. 

This runs against what many philosophers and psychologists have traditionally thought and still think. 

Grice might use a rather new kind of argument, – one that is based on considerations about Moore's paradox (one that "does not trigger implicatures!" -- vide Grice on the Moore paradox in the third William James lecture).

It shows that if one believes that one believes that p, one believes that p – even though one can believe that p without believing that one believes that p.

Or not, of course!