Reflections on Grice's horseshoe

Ken Turner

Reflections on Grice's horseshoe

Ken Turner

University of Brighton

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Abstract

This paper offers a model treating conditional sentences as expressions of truth-functional propositions and as such being consistent with the broader Gricean framework. I show the inadequacy of the model (and hence some of the framework) to account for a large variety of naturally occurring examples. The paper proposes an alternative theory whereby conditionals do not express propositions, but rather reveal judgments about the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Pragmatics today ((Łódź studies in language)
Editors	Piotr Cap
Place of Publication	Bern, Switzerland
Publisher	Peter Lang
Pages	17-48
Number of pages	32
ISBN (Print)	3631543794
Publication status	Published - 2005

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