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Sadock, Jerrold M. 1977. Modus brevis: The truncated argument. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 13 : 545–554.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Person as a subject

Annotation

Cases of 'modus brevis' (i.e. natural language arguments in which some steps are not mentioned explicitly) are investigated. The conclusion is that a system very like classical logic governs the distribution of conventional indicators of modus brevis. S. suggests that the whole of English could be treated in a classical way and that the apparent discrepancies could be explained in terms of a theory of language use as proposed by Grice.