THE PALÆO-GRICEIANS

Speranza

H. P. Grice lived between 1913 and 1988. So it is expected that the palæo-Griceians --or The palæo-Griceians, as Grice would prefer -- should refer to all those Oxford English philosophers who pre-dated him: Bradley, say.

And it should also include those LATIN-speaking philosophers such as Ockham!

And before Ockham, Cicero, for whom the Roman lingo was his 'mother tongue'.

And before that, Kantotle -- and Aristotle.

All these are The palæo-Griceians.

For surely, the idea of 'conversational implicature', or 'impliciture,' as I'm starting to prefer to spell this, we can find in the Græco-Roman rhetoricians.

For a 'conversational implicature' is like a figure of rhetoric, only different.'

It may be argued that Grice was concerned with people like Christobel Hungerland and Grant, who had written on 'pragmatic implication,' or Nowell-Smith, who had written on 'contextual implication'. So he would have stuck with 'implicAture,' rather than 'implicIture' --.

"Implication" itself relates to 'material implication,' i.e. the horseshoe -- but we don't need that.

Grice's emphasis is on the first, second, or third person.

It is a person (a "man," as he prefers at Harvard) who IMPLICATES (or implies) -- by uttering, say, an utterance, whose logical form may involve the horseshoe.

And stuff.