Lexicon of Arguments

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II 36
Def M-intention/Grice: "that H intends to do this-and-that" instead of "that H does such-and-such." This is an intentional act.
II 38
The candidate means that Waterloo was in 1815, but he does not intend that the teacher believes that
II 44
Def #-psi/terminology/Grice: #-psi is a mode indicator that is correlated with the propositional attitude psi from a given range of propositional attitudes. H is to actively "psi" that p - Exceptions: "Do not go past the border": H himself should have the intention.
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III 102
R-correlation stands for: referential correlation. D-correlation stands for: denotational correlation.
III 103
Difference reference/denotation: Peter's dog is an R-correlate of "Fido". Every thing with long fur is a D-correlate of "shaggy". Resulting method: for S "Fido is shaggy" means the same as "Peter’s dog has long fur".
III 104
Problem: the "designated pair" between Fido/Peter's dog (not cat). What is the meaning of "designated"?
III 105
The situation may be brought about accidentally where sentences mean something else - this complementary relationship can only be eliminated by the condition of the intention to make a difference.
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Cohen I 395
Def conversationalist hypothesis/CH/Grice: the meaning of the logical particles "~", "u", "v" and ">" is not different from the particles used in natural language. "And", "or", "if, then" and "not": where they appear inconsistent, this appearance is due to the different assumptions with which natural language utterances are usually understood.
Cohen I 395ff
Def semantic hypothesis (Cohen): many occurrences of logical particles in natural conversation differ from their meaning in formal contexts - although there are cases where they are consistent.
Cohen I 402
Thesis: everyday languange meaning is richer than truth functional meaning.
Cohen I 410
Image: "that is a tree". Assumption: it is a painted tree.
Cohen I 412
Conversationalist hypothesis/Cohen: the conversationalist hypothesis assumes that the conversation implicature transmits that the antecedent is true only if the consequent is true.

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