the use is:
given spme referrals to minnie the implicature
is to grab the funnel
and shove through it
some marginal
lexical relationship
if the funnel clogs
the solution is oxford
On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 at 15:30 Luigi Speranza <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Helm was referring to "The Lone Ranger":palma, apgs
"I know that Speranza will be hastening to tell me that The Lone Ranger
never killed anyone. He merely shot the guns out of their hands and tied
them up for the Sheriff; which is pretty much the sort of thing Daredevil
likes to do. Speranza might think that the Lone Ranger was from Texas, but
not so, he first appeared in Detroit in 1933 on radio station WXYZ."
This seems to minimise all the action at Bryant's Gap.
Matter of fact, lThe Lone Ranger" (call him "Paul Grice"?) was thus
described because he is the only survivor of a group of six Texas Rangers,
and NOT -- this is a disimplicature -- because he seems to 'work' alone (he
doesn't: he is accompanied by his companion, or attendiing implicature,
"Tonto" -- is that a proper name alla Frege or a description, if not a
definite one?)
So, "The Lone Ranger" would be what Grice in "Vacuous Names" (partially
reprinted in "Definite Descriptions", MIT) calls a "vacuous definite
description" (His example, "the winged horse," Pegasus.)
This poses an obvious, yet complex, implicature.
Although the Lone Ranger's SURNAME in the radio shows Helm refers to is
given as "Reid," his FIRST name (cfr. "Bellephoron") is oddly never
specified in any of the radio or television shows.
Various radio reference books, beginning with *Radio's Golden Age* (Eastern
Valley Press), give "the Lone Ranger"'s complete name as "John Reid."
His mother possibly referred to him as "Jack."
Some cite the anniversary radio programme in as the source of this vacuous
first name -- which is odd given that "The Lone Ranger"'s alleged proper
name ("John") is *never* mentioned in that episode.
In the final chapter of the Republic "The Lone Ranger" film serial, "The
Lone Ranger" is revealed to be a Texas Ranger bearing the proper name of
"Allen King"!
In the second serial, "The Lone Ranger Rides Again" he identifies
himself, however, by the vacuous name "Bill Andrews" (possibly a relation
to both Julie Andrews and The Andrews Sisters).
"The Lone Ranger"'s vacuous Fregeian proper name is also thought NOT to
have been mentioned in contemporary Lone Ranger newspaper comics, comic
books, and tie-in premiums, though some have stated that the vacuous
Fregeian proper name "John Reid" is notably used in an illustration of the
grave marker which appears in a comic book version of the character's
origin story or in a record set.
The vacuous Fregeian proper name "John Reid" is used in a scene in the
film "The Legend of The Lone Ranger," in which the surviving Reid
romantically digs an extra grave for himself.
"The Lone [Texas] Ranger" also bears the vacuous Fregeian proper name
"John Reid" in "Dynamite Entertainment"'s licensed Lone Ranger comic book
series and in the Disney film *The Lone Ranger* (Disney thought that the
Fregeian "John Reid" was not 'catchy' enough).
The vacuous Fregeian proper name "Luke Hartman" (of all names!) was used
in the TV-movie/unsold series pilot.
Since "The Lone Ranger" besides delivering the villains to "The Sheriff,"
always
uses perfect grammar and precise speech devoid of slang and colloquialisms
yet filled with implicature, I tend to call him "Paul Grice," one of the
six surviving Texas Rangers (A posse of six members of the Texas Ranger
Division pursuing a band of outlaws led by Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish is
betrayed by a
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