The influence of H. P. Grice on T. K. Abbott

category of conversational modality

Table of the Categories of Freedom relatively to the Notions of Good and Evil.

I. QUANTITY[edit]

• Subjective, according to maxims (practical opinions of the individual)
• Objective, according to principles (Precepts)
• A priori both objective and subjective principles of freedom (laws)

II. QUALITY[edit]

• Practical rules of action (praeceptivae)
• Practical rules of omission (prohibitivae)
• Practical rules of exceptions (exceptivae)

III. RELATION[edit]

• To personality To the condition of the person.
• Reciprocal, of one person to the others of the others.

IV. MODALITY[edit]

• The Permitted and the Forbidden
• Duty and the contrary to duty.
• Perfect and imperfect duty.