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This is very important. Kramer discusses it in "The Wise and the Many" or the "Many and the Wise", I forget.

He aptly writes, rhetorically,

"Was Alexander unwise in cutting the knot?"

(or words).

The reference is, jocular, to the

entanglements

which is how Woodbury translates Sidonius

'implicatura'.

An implicatura is an 'entanglement'. Grice gets 'disentangled' when we start applying his undeveloped theory of 'disimplicature', which Chapman notes, aptly, was wisely left undeveloped!

Alexander _could_ cut the knot.

But philosophers?