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Monday, April 27, 2020

H. P. Grice's Principle of Conversational Rationality

It the rationality or irrationality of conversational conduct which Grice is concerned to track down.

The principle of conversational rationality abstracts from the special character of conversational interests.

Do not multiply rationalities beyond necessity.

Whether a particular enterprise aims at a specifically conversational outcome and so is specifically a conversational enterprise, or whether its central character is more generously conceived as having no special connection with COMMUNICATION the SAME principle will determine the rationality of its conduct.

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