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Kasher, Asa. 1976. Conversational maxims and rationality. In Kasher, Asa, ed. Language in focus: Foundations, methods and systems. Essays in memory of Y. Bar-Hillel. Reidel. pp. 197–216.
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Article in book
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English
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K. argues that human argumentation cannot be translated completely into formal logical languages: there can be no full understanding of the phenomena if one does not recognize the existence of non-logical relations between possible points of departure of arguments and their points of termination. In particular, K. refers to relations of implicature. Grice's conversational principles are explained in terms of rationality principles.