On May 29, in a rare public statement, Special Counsel Robert Mueller made a number of claims, that were interpreted very differently by the different political camps. And the philosophy and ...

Conversational implicatures are easy to grasp for the most part. But it is another matter to give a rational reconstruction of how they are grasped. We argue that Grice's attempt to do this fails. We ...

Grice's Quantity maxims have been widely misinterpreted as enjoining a speaker to make the strongest claim that she can, while respecting the other conversational maxims. Although many writers on the ...

New research explains why children sometimes lose the thread of a seemingly obvious conversation, particularly when talking on the phone or a video call. Children who suddenly appear to lose the ...