Contextual implication∗
- 1 January 1960
- journal article
- other
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Inquiry
- Vol. 3 (1) , 211-258
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00201746008601311
Abstract
In this essay, I have rejected the inductive interpretation of the paradigm of contextual implication (to say “p”; is to imply that one believes that ) and proposed in its stead an explicatory model according to which a speaker in making a statement contextually implies whatever one is entitled to infer on the basis of the presumption that his act of stating is normal. In developing this model, I show how contextual implication depends on three distinct matters: a stating context, presumptions of normality, and rules for the correct use of expressions.Keywords
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- Pragmatic ImplicationPhilosophy, 1958