46. The sentence "Boys are boys." is a tautology. It is uninformative by virtue of its semantic content. In uttering it the speaker flouts the first maxim of ___________ ____: the contribution to conversation is not sufficiently informative.
46. The sentence "Boys are boys." is a tautology. It is uninformative by virtue of its semantic content. In uttering it the speaker flouts the first maxim of ___________ ____: the contribution to conversation is not sufficiently informative.
90. Sentence "War is war" is a tautology. It is uninformative by virtue of its semantic content. In uttering it the speaker flouts the first maxim of quantity: the contribution to conversation is not sufficiently informative.
90. Sentence "War is war" is a tautology. It is uninformative by virtue of its semantic content. In uttering it the speaker flouts the first maxim of quantity: the contribution to conversation is not sufficiently informative.
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