@misc{cogprints959,
volume = {32},
number = {4},
author = {Varol Akman},
editor = {Jacob L. Mey},
title = {Relating to Ken Kesey's Wise Man},
publisher = {Elsevier},
year = {2000},
journal = {Journal of Pragmatics},
pages = {485--489},
keywords = {Irony, Metaphysics, Stories, `What is said'},
url = {http://cogprints.org/959/},
abstract = {We take a parable (told by Ken Kesey) and exhibit how it
achieves its sublime effect through a sequence of weak implicatures. Interestingly, the implicatures turn out to allude to Richard Rorty's renowned distinction between metaphysicians and ironists.}
}