According to the Knowledge Account of Assertion, assertions are governed by the rule that One must: assert that p only if one knows that p. Some philosophers oppose recent arguments for the Knowledge Account by claiming that assertion, being an act much like any other, will be subject to norms governing acts generally, such as those articulated by Grice for the purpose of successful, cooperati...

Aspects of Reason offers a sketch of parts of an ambitious project to derive important philosophical consequences from the idea of a rational being, with hopes of improving on Aristotle and Kant. Jonathan Dancy offers a good account and critique of this project.1 In this review, I will mention and discuss some important things that Grice says along the way about what reasoning is, what reasons ...

As Grice defined it, a speaker conversationally implicates that p only if the speaker expects the hearer to recognize that the speaker thinks that p. This paper argues that in the sorts of cases that Grice took as paradigmatic examples of conversational implicature there is in fact no need for the hearer to consider what the speaker might thus have in mind. Instead, the hearer might simply make...

One of the most important aspects of Grice’s theory of conversation is the drawing of a borderline between what is said and what is implicated. Grice’s views concerning this borderline have been strongly and influentially criticised by relevance theorists. In particular, it has become increasingly widely accepted that Grice’s notion of what is said is too limited, and that pragmatics has a far ...

In this paper I will be examining and evaluating three conversational implicatures from the gospel of Matthew along with their translations in Tok Pisin, a lingua franca country Papua New Guinea. My purpose examination is to evaluate whether they contain are likely communicate same truth conditional meaning translation as original. After evaluation show my proposed additions ensure that origina...

The paper presents a consolidated set of principles of cooperative spoken human-machine dialogue which have the potential tor being turned into practically applicable design guidelines. The principles have been validated in three ways. They were established fi'om a Wizard of Oz simulation corpus used to develop the dialogue model for a spoken language dialogue system. Developed independently of...

Extra-articular arthrodesis ofthe subtalarjoint (Grice 1952, 1955) is a satisfactory method of stabilising mobile pes valgus in children. The established procedure is technically difficult, and this may explain a proportion offailures. This paper describes a method of extra-articular subtalar fusion devised by Batchelor and used by him since 1955. It is technically easier and failures of fusion...

In his logic of conversation, Paul Grice made an important distinction between two kinds of act that speakers may perform when uttering a sentence and, correspondingly, two kinds or levels of speaker meaning: (i) saying, hence what is said, and (ii) implicating, hence what is implicated (implicature) (Grice 1975). The distinction between what is said and what is implicated can be seen as one in...