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My views on TE have changed, so the last few sentences of this paragraph should be removed. I may be able to send you something more accurate in the next couple of months, if I can finish it!… Read more
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You may want to refer to the literature on Gricean implicature here. Read more
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For the linguistic and cultural properties of lists in Greek, you may find useful the work of Athena Kirk at Cornell. Read more
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You're obviously right in absolute terms, but the difference between Hdt. and Thuc. is perhaps not large enough to reach statistical significance. That is, for all practical purposes, there may not be a difference between the relative frequency in Hdt. and Thuc. Read more
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Doesn't this account predict that TE should show up in each part of the description of Scylla? I'm not sure I see why just one part would be singled out as common knowledge. Read more
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I think you should elaborate on this statement: "What makes states of affairs permanent, habitual, or general is the shared knowledge about them."… Read more
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What you propose here is strikingly similar to what Hoffman argued for the Vedic injunctive. Read more