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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.
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- http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~akman/jour-papers/jprag/kesey.txt
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keywords: "Irony, Metaphysics, Stories, `What is said'"
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title: Relating to Ken Kesey's Wise Man
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volume: 32