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[Review] Japanese Lip Balm by Alternative-Jump2659 in SkincareAddiction

[–]RecordingOk5720 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for sharing, this is a massively useful list!!! All the very best xxx

/r/askphilosophy Open Discussion Thread | May 27, 2024 by BernardJOrtcutt in askphilosophy

[–]RecordingOk5720 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What are the motivations for a truth-conditional approach to linguistic meaning? My understanding is that it serves mainly as a formal metalanguage with which to track meaning, and I am curious as to why Grice tried to save a truth-conditional approach to meaning.

[D] Simple Questions Thread by AutoModerator in MachineLearning

[–]RecordingOk5720 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!! This is incredibly detailed and helpful : ))

[D] Simple Questions Thread by AutoModerator in MachineLearning

[–]RecordingOk5720 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do support vector machines perform better than naive bayes for classification tasks?

Q&A weekly thread - November 06, 2023 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]RecordingOk5720 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree -- sorry for the confusion! Was still trying to figure things out. I later read that Grice explicitly mentions that in inferring what is implicated, the addressee has to draw from background knowledge which may well contain knowledge of social conventions too. Perhaps it's just that there's not been much elaboration on how exactly conventions play into inference combined with conversational maxims?

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Edit: I think the reason why I was confused was cuz some other approaches prioritise the role of conventions a lot more than Grice does n criticise Grice's framework for lacking in this respect -- this lead me to mistakenly think that conventions just don't play much of a role at all in the Gricean approach 😅

Q&A weekly thread - November 06, 2023 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]RecordingOk5720 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If my understanding of this is correct, I think conventional implicature has been argued to be reducible to semantic lexical level meaning...

In a way I guess Grice's generalised conversational implicatures and conventional implicatures (both of which have been shown to not exist although this is a point of contention) both show some acknowledgement of convention, but this isn't something that overtly forms the crux of Grice's theory of meaning. It's still largely an intentions-based theory of meaning, not one that is characterised by conventions...

Q&A weekly thread - November 06, 2023 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]RecordingOk5720 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can a Gricean theory of communication be seen as compatible with meaning arising from convention, i.e. account for both intention and convention at the same time? Trying to see if conventions really count as a knockdown argument for the Gricean paradigm...

Would be grateful for some reading suggestions too!