Re: RT list: Grice´s Sticky Wicket

I was able to get able to obtain Howard White's
article, which both Dan and JL refer to, for
nothing. Zip.

It's easy to do-if, in fact, what you're after is the article.

I'm not sure what Grice had to say about imaginary Gotchas.

Best,

DMD

>Someone on _this_ list should get enough funds
>to go to the H. P. Grice Papers Collection,
>deposited in the UC/Berkeley, Calif. and find,
>
> _how_ used, as he apparently did,
> ´relevance´
> in his "Conversation" lectures given
> at Oxford -- privately, as University Lecturer --
> in 1966,
> and which thus pre-date by a year the MS
> most often cited, the William James Memorial
> Lectures as typed by D. S. M. W.
>
>(The ref. is to Chapman, op. cit., ch. on ´conversation´).
>
>But on this post, rather, which I have titled
>apres Grice´s problem with computers -- indeed
>the computers´ problem with Grice -- "this d*mn
>machine can´t spell ´sticky wicket´" he would
>complain, cited by Chapman.
>
>Vis a vis D. Sperber´s recent ref. to this essay
>by White, PhD UCalifornia Berkeley, now
>Emeritus, on the relevance of librarians when
>giving hits to consulters.
>
>I tried to access the link D. Sperber provides,
>but it´s almost $40 dollars to pull it, if you
>can believe that! No way, I would think. I don´t
>get charged half as much by my boy as he pulls
>leaves from my Swimming-Pool Library! But in any
>case, I found White´s powerpoint presentation as
>he delivered it in Brazil. Fun, and full of
>exclamation marks, which are good with some!

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