maxim of quantity, according to which one is to be just as informative as required.
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:See also Cooperative principle; sections Maxim of Quantity and talk ) 16 : 21, 29 February 2012 ( UTC)
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However, according to the maxim of quantity, a speaker will only be informative as is required, and will therefore not use any stronger terms unless required.
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Likewise, flouting the maxim of quantity may result in ironic understatement, the maxim of relevance in blame by irrelevant praise, and the maxim of manner in ironic ambiguity.
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By flouting the maxim of quantity, the speaker invokes the maxim of quality, leading to the implicature that the speaker does not have the evidence to give a specific location where he believes John is.
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Perhaps Grice's best-known example of conversational implicature is the case of the reference letter, a " quantity implicature " ( i . e ., because it involves flouting the first maxim of Quantity ):
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