Scott Soames citing Grice for Nous (2008)

"Implicature"
S. Soames
Noûs, 42.440-465. 2008.

Subject:
IMPLICATURE
Person as Subject:GRICE, H PAUL


"Sentences containing bare numerical quantifier

phrases -- 'n Fs' -- semantically express

incomplete propositions that are pragmatically enriched

by filling out the phrases -- e.g., 'at least, at most, exactly n Fs'

-- to arrive at the propositions asserted."

"When several enrichments are otherwise feasible,

conversational maxims dictate that one select the

strongest, most informative, and relevant propositions

for which one has adequate evidence. In this way, the

maxims have a role to play in determining what is asserted, over and above their

role in generating conversational implicatures."


--- and who doubted it?