Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Presupposition and Conversational Implicature' and 'On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense'

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / f. Pragmatics of conditionals

10990

Conditionals are truth-functional, but unassertable in tricky cases? [Grice, by Read]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

20363

Leaves are unequal, but we form the concept 'leaf' by discarding their individual differences [Nietzsche]

19. Language / F. Communication / 5. Pragmatics / b. Implicature

10991

Key conversational maxims are 'quality' (assert truth) and 'quantity' (leave nothing out) [Grice, by Read]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]