Greek Grice: Implicatures in Plato's Dialogues

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Surely Plato wrote those dialogues to pour scorn on "Socrates". The man over-implicates, but sometimes he under-implicates, too.

I am particularly irritated by the attention he gives to teen-agers. I mean, HE (Socrates) thinks that they are intelligent, and maybe they were not then. They are intelligent TODAY, but they seldom IMPLICATE. They are IMPLICATED, rather.

On the other hand, Socrates also implicates with some older folk, usually judges, and stuff.

---- The problem with Socrates's implicatures is that they are in Greek. I mean, the explicature is in Greek, and the implicature is in the logical form of something LIKE Greek, but not quite.

The apparatus criticus sometimes helps, but most often does not. I mean, who cares if there is divergence in MSS as to whether it's a dative or a genitive? We's talking important stuff here. None of them frivolities!

(Incidentally: TEST to identify a Gricean PHILOSOPHER: as opposed to a Gricean linguist, etc.: She cares! A philosopher CARES if something is analytic, or synthetic or presuppositional: a linguist is just having fun and looking for more and more verbalised exchanges to impress her colleagues!)