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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Grice's Razor

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Grice's razor[edit]

As a principle of parsimony, conversational implications are to be preferred over semantic context for linguistic explanations.
—Grice, we think?  ImplicatureThe Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
Basically, when in a conversation, prefer what the speaker meant over what the sentence she spoke literally meant.

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