is there a pithy law & economics term for “the law as various observers believe it to be” vs what it actually is in practice?
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Replying to @Meaningness
not quite because this is about mistakes about both
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Replying to @literalbanana @Meaningness
could be mistaken about what the law says (high information cost to find out) and how it’s enforced (same)
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Replying to @literalbanana
I was reading this paragraph from Searle’s “Literal Meaning” when I saw this tweet, and it strikes me there is some connectionpic.twitter.com/od2lopWFqF
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Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana
When I think about linguistic quibbling like that my reaction is sort of instantly "but what about Grice?!?" Assume utterances are short, relevant, informative, and optimized to be so. Then intended meaning becomes MUCH clearer. http://goo.gl/DFiSDB
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Replying to @almostlikethat @literalbanana
Yes, Grice is in the same tradition, with late Wittgenstein and then Austin. Heuristically useful but doesn’t work as an empirically adequate account if you apply it to real-world usage. You have to go full ethnomethodology if you want empirical coverage.
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Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana
Say more? My model is that Grice's starting point is being successfully developed by linguistic pragmatists into game theoretic models that more or less successfully treat communication acts as moves in a cooperative game. http://goo.gl/Lc8vRJ
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Replying to @almostlikethat @literalbanana
Oh dear. This is the sort of stuff I spent several years arguing against in the late 80s. I seem to be repeating that in the Eggplant book to start me extent.
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Whoops that should be “some extent”. Stupid autocorrect
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