From pycyn@aol.com Tue Aug 22 07:12:48 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20004 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2000 14:12:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Aug 2000 14:12:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d07.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.39) by mta2 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2000 14:12:48 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d07.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.12.) id a.71.60c1909 (4505) for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:12:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <71.60c1909.26d3e45c@aol.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:12:44 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] Gricean? To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 3988 In a message dated 00-08-22 00:37:59 EDT, steven writes: << What is this word Gricean I keep seeing here? >> Pertaining to H.P. Grice, a philosopher who sketched out the "rules" of communication as a collaborative enterprise. On the basis of these rules and the assumption that your fellow dialogists are trying to communicate with you (not always safe, especially in groups of linguists or philosphers), you should be able to supply bits of information literally missing in the the messages exchanged and figure what pieces present to ignore. Thus, for example (one used earlier), the fact that someone says {ti botpi noda}, rather than, say, {ti na botpi}, though they are logically equivalent, implies in a Gricean way that the object fails to be a bottle only by lacking content, not by lacking cap or material, nor by being the wrong shape or function.