Contextual implication

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 3 (1-4):211 – 258 (1960)
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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.

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Essays in Conceptual Analysis.A. Flew & P. Strawson - 1956 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 11 (4):685-686.
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