The Grice Club

Welcome

The Grice Club

The club for all those whose members have no (other) club.

Is Grice the greatest philosopher that ever lived?

Search This Blog

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Is H. P. Grice's 'objector' in "Causal theory" modelled on Austin?

Grice argues that the doubt-or-denial condition attaching to L-statements ("look"-statements) is a conversational implicature, so L-statements have truth-conditions that are not affected by the doubt-or-denial condition, and so we can talk meaningfully about how things look to us even if it sounds odd.

Grice’s "objector" — who seems at least inspired by J. L. Austin, if not modelled on him — argues that Lstatements without the doubt-or-denial condition are neither true nor false, but Grice replies that this objector confuses implicature with presupposition.

No comments:

Post a Comment