Grice's razor

Allan Hazlett

Grice's razor

Metaphilosophy 38 (5):669-690 (2007)

Abstract	Grice’s Razor is a principle of parsimony which states a preference for linguistic explanations in terms of conversational implicature, to 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’.
Keywords	knowledge contextualism conversational implicature
Categories	Epistemic Contextualism and Invariantism in Epistemology Implicature in Philosophy of Language Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction in Philosophy of Language (categorize this paper)
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9973.2007.00512.x
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