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
By empirical adequacy I mean if you make up a dozen sentences like “Who, of John, Bill and Mary, came to the party?” that no one would ever say and do a logical analysis of them, you can come up with a story that impresses seven logicians.
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If you collect hundreds of hours of videotape of ordinary people having picnics and transcribe them meticulously and watch them a million times, you come up with a very different story, which may have something to do with reality.
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Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana
Recording, transcribing, and theorizing about real (generally tedious) human conversations is what pragmatist linguistics actually do in real life. I didn't go to MIT with its Chomskian idealism. I went to UCSB which is full of pragmatists ;-) http://goo.gl/dbR22c
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Replying to @almostlikethat @literalbanana
Yeah, that’s good! I’m not familiar with that transcription system, but superficially at least it’s similar to the EMCA one I know.
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