:: : : To me,'at his piano'implies'seated as though he has been playing or is about to do so', while'by his piano'does not imply that, and so by Gricean implicature might suggest that he is " not " so seated .-- talk ) 17 : 50, 7 May 2009 ( UTC)
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"' Cancelability : "'" . . . a putative conversational implicature is explicitly cancelable if, to the form of words the utterance of which putatively implicates that " p ", it is admissible to add " but not p ", or " I do not mean to imply that p ", and it is contextually cancelable if one can find situations in which the utterance of the form of words would simply not carry the implicature ."
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"' Cancelability : "'" . . . a putative conversational implicature is explicitly cancelable if, to the form of words the utterance of which putatively implicates that " p ", it is admissible to add " but not p ", or " I do not mean to imply that p ", and it is contextually cancelable if one can find situations in which the utterance of the form of words would simply not carry the implicature ."
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For example, if Alice points out that Bill is not present, and Carol replies that Bill has a cold, then there is an implicature that the cold is the reason, or at least a possible reason, for Bill's absence; this is because Carol's comment is not cooperative does not contribute to the conversation unless her point is that Bill's cold is or might be the reason for his absence . ( This is covered specifically by the maxim of relation .)
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If Jim and Raoul's car is in fact five minutes outside Seattle and Raoul knows this, he may be accused of lying, since " We aren't there yet, but we've passed Chicago " in that context has the implicature " We are not too far past Chicago and still not near Seattle . " Technically, however, Raoul's statement was true, because the explicature " at the time of utterance, Jim and Raoul had passed Chicago and were not yet in Seattle " was true.
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I don't want to argue the nuances of implicature here . 2 ) Yes, but this page is here for discussing the actions of other editors, whereas talk : peer-to-peer is for discussing the " content " or editing of peer-to-peer . ( Incidentally, this is why I didn't appreciate you spilling this p2p dispute into my question at WT : D, when I was very careful to avoid mentioning it . ) "'M "'05 : 38, 6 July 2009 ( UTC)
