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ences, and try to explain them using Grice's principles.
2 State some traditional philosophical issue and show how the notion of
conversational implicature illuminates it.
3 Adjudicate one of our two objections to Grice's theory of conversa-
tional implicature, or come up with a further objection of your own.
4 Is there anything to the notion of "presupposition" in a natural lan-
guage that cannot be accounted for in terms of implicature? Less
tendentiously, is there more to the notion of "presupposition" in natural
language than I have admitted in this chapter?
5 Discuss the notion of conventional implicature, and try to think of
more examples. Is Grice right in contending that it differs both from
ordinary entailment and from conversational implicature?
6 Adjudicate a dispute between a relevance theorist and Grice, or simply
discuss some aspect of the Relevance Theory literature.