[lit-ideas] Grice on "particularly"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:10:43 -0400 (EDT)
>I don't particularly care what Grice...
Oddly, Grice says that "particularly" is, most of the cases, otiose.
There's, first, what he calls "sentence placemeVnt":
"Particularly, I am a female"
"I am, particularly, a female"
"I am a female, particularly."
He writes: "While logicians don't necessarily care for how the syntax is
organised, _we_ do."
Grice's argument for the otiosity of "particulary" comes fullest in his
"Notes on adverbially triggered disimplicatures", "Queries," XVII.
"For any occurrence of 'particularly', it should (indeed _could_) be
possible to replace it for "generally" -- but this gives odd results."
"I am particularly a female --" (implicature: "but generally I'm not."
And so on.
Cheers,
Speranza
In a message dated 6/20/2012 7:10:25 P.M. UTC-02, wokshevs@xxxxxx writes:
Well, if your first conditional is a premise and your second conditional a
conclusion from it, and if the validity of the inference is accepted by the
majority of lit-ideas regular irregulars, then definitely lit-ideas is out
of
business. (And I don't particularly care what Grice has to say on the
matter.)
>>If p, q.
>>If R. Paul's computer receives an email from lit-ideas the consequent is
that R. Paul will know something (vide, R. Paul's metaphorically titled
post, "A shot in the dark").
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