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GRICE'S RAZOR
Author(s) -
HAZLETT ALLAN
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
metaphilosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1467-9973
pISSN - 0026-1068
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2007.00512.x
Subject(s) - grice , implicature , contextualism , context (archaeology) , occam's razor , linguistics , attribution , epistemology , preference , philosophy , pragmatics , psychology , mathematics , social psychology , history , statistics , archaeology , interpretation (philosophy)
Grice's Razor is a principle of parsimony that states a preference for linguistic explanations in terms of conversational implicature, over explanations in terms of semantic context dependence. Here I propose a Gricean theory of knowledge attributions, and contend on the basis of Grice's Razor that it is superior to contextualism about “knows.”