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Publication details [#4925]

Horn, Laurence R. 1973. Greek Grice: A brief survey of proto-conversational rules in the history of logic. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 9 : 205–214.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational maxim | logic | modality | quantification

Annotation

H. shows that the treatment of modal concepts (especially 'possible' and 'possible not') and quantificational concepts (especially 'some' and 'some not') from Aristotle to De Morgan, anticipates the correct analysis of these relations by means of conversational rules.