Sobolievskyi P. Logical and philosophical analysis of Paul Grice's inferential pragmatics

The thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of P. Grice's inferential pragmatics. Paul Grice has founded one of the most influential paradigms of research in the pragmatics. He shared value statements into two components: what was said and what was meant. Grice came to the conclusion that there is a both semantic-pragmatic component of statements, which is implicated by speaker, and does not directly follow from the conventional meaning of the words of the statement. This semantic-pragmatic component was called by Grice implicature (conversational implicature). P.Grice's researches in the sphere of inferential pragmatists can be applied to the interpretation of logical operators, including protection of understanding operators not, and, or, if, then as truth-functional.