What would Grice have said about 'yawning' as an implicature?
On Mon., Sep. 13, 2021, 1:21 p.m. Donal McEvoy, <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
One of the less attractive aspects of the influence of Wittgenstein, that
it encourages the belief that something like yawning can replace having
something to say.
D
Yawning back (after all it's catching)
On Monday, 13 September 2021, 02:16:47 BST, Paul Stone <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Yawn
On Sun., Sep. 12, 2021, 1:19 p.m. Donal McEvoy, <
dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Those who guessed immediately that this likely refers to Raducanu maysimultaneously be demonstrating how our adult grasp of meaning is always by
plucking from an array of background knowledge, an instant rolodexing from
a vast repertoire of accumulated possibilities. It's quite a feat that we
perform, most often without conscious effort, almost as automatically as
how our eye opens to give an instant image while the complex process behind
this remains hidden from view.
perhaps related philosophical ideas or approaches - Wittgenstein's idea of
Of course, I have to spoil it all now and mention in this context two
a 'perspicacious overview' as central to grasping meaning correctly from a
philosophical viewpoint (we need to make sure we are not getting the
meaning wrong by plucking out the wrong things, so we need to ensure we've
taken all the relevant things into account when deciding meaning); and
Popper's view of the mind as embroiled in World 3, so that World 2 often
draws on its available World 3 background knowledge when making sense of
things. At this point in the past JLS might pop up to defend an atomistic
view of how we grasp language, though this surely is as implausible as the
view that the eye produces an image by taking atoms of light as
constituting pixels.
Best,
D
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