David Teachout

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Perhaps only the simpler information is strictly given, but it is given in a way that carries its own suggestions (which may, as in this example, be seriously unpleasant). So philosophers of language are led to distinguish what is strictly said or asserted—the information carried by the utterance, called its truth-condition—from what is suggested or implied, not as a strict logical consequence, but by the way things are put, called the implicature.
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
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