Grice's razor

Allan Hazlett

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9973.2007.00512.x

Grice's razor

Allan Hazlett

Department of Philosophy

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Abstract

Grice's Razor is a principle of parsimony that states a preference for linguistic explanations in terms of conversational implicature, over explanations in terms of semantic context dependence. Here I propose a Gricean theory of knowledge attributions, and contend on the basis of Grice's Razor that it is superior to contextualism about "knows."

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	669-690
Number of pages	22
Journal	Metaphilosophy
Volume	38
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9973.2007.00512.x
State	Published - 2007

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Contextualism
Conversational implicature
Nowledge

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