One Swallow Does Not Make A Summer: Aristotle's 'Unintended' Implicature -- in Gricean Key

By J. L. Speranza


Aristotle waxes, he think, poetical, when he writes


One swallow does not make a summer

-- He means the bird ("This is a type of homophone", Grice commented -- J. L. Ackrill took note).

But he is, of course, wrong.

Pigs -- pigs are pigs.

Happy? Pigs are happy.

English, unlike Grecian, does not use 'eudaimon' a lot. They say, 'happy'. Yet Grice finds he needed a Griceanism for the Grecian 'eudaimon'. "I propose godfairy'"
(Grice 2001, "Some remarks about a happy life").

Grice wants to say that if a pirot (think pig) is happy
we should be able to provide the full necessary and sufficient conditions.

Grice lists them as 11.

They are all properly internalised, alla Hume, into the pig conscience, which, "for our purposes," Grice writes, "will not be _akratic_."

The problem is, ... pigs _are_ akratic --.

Perhaps it's best to consider a 'purpoise''s idea at this point. Etc.