[lit-ideas] Tortured to 'Cooperate': Flouts to Grice's Maxims
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:53:11 EDT
In a message dated 4/23/2009 11:20:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
rpaul@xxxxxxxx writes:
They know all about these things and we're mere
dunces when it comes to extracting 'information.
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Bravo.
I'm not sure 'extracting' is the right thing to do with 'information'.
Exstill, perhaps, cfr. 'instil'.
I wonder if there are written records (in the Loeb Classical Library) of
conversation under torture.
I know there are in the James Bond films, where 007 is fancifully tortured.
For the objection of torture posed by Urmson to Grice's model vide Grice
WOW, v (originally the PR 'Utterer's meaning and intentions' article --
"Objections to the Sufficiency of the Analysis -- Urmson").
Cheers,
JLS
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