arbor griceiana

Arbor griceiana: ramification – Starwson Wiggins p. 520,  the principle ramifies into the maxims. This is Strawson and Wiggins way of putting this. It’s a difficult issue. What the connection is between Grice’s principle of conversational helpfulness and the attending conversational maxims. Strawson and Wiggins state that Grice should not feel the burden to make the maxims ‘necessarily independent.’ The image of the ramification is a good one – Grice called it ‘arbor griceiana.’