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Some problems with Q-Implicatures:

1.   Consider the following exchange (heard at home):
          1(a). Did you turn the AC on?
          1(b). Well, I turned it _back_ on.
This appears quite parallel to:
          2(a). Did you clean your room?
          2(b). Well, I cleaned up _part_ of it.
The Q-Implicature of 2(b) is of course
          I didn't clean up all of it
since there is a Horn scale <clean up all, clean up part>; and it
seems that a Q-Implicature of 1(b) should be
          I didn't turn it on originally
even though 1(a) does not entail 1(b) as should be the case if
there is a Horn scale <turn on, turn back on>.

2.   In Gracian's _Manual_ (a book of neat medieval commonsense
wisdom) #17 we find "a gambler does not play the card which his
opponent expects, much less that which he desires" which gives
another example:
          A. Did he desire it?
          B. Well, he expected it.
Surely B has the Q-Implicature "he didn't desire it" even though
there is no Horn scale <desire, expect>.

So are there contextual constrains on Horn scales, or what?

	- Ken <miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>