“What’s with the nitpicking, Constant? [...] they weren’t relevant to your point”
I had—mistakenly as it turns out—assumed that you were obeying Grice’s maxims. You were, by your own eventual admission, disobeying the maxim of relevance. That is why I misunderstood you.
“What’s with the nitpicking, Constant? [...] they weren’t relevant to your point”
I had—mistakenly as it turns out—assumed that you were obeying Grice’s maxims. You were, by your own eventual admission, disobeying the maxim of relevance. That is why I misunderstood you.