IMPLICATIONS AND QUESTIONS RAISED

Abstract

What I intend to analyze in this article is the possibility of abandoning the theory of relevance of Sperber and Wilson and replacing it with another that allows us to solve one of the problems that his theory is not able to solve: how to find the premise involved when conversational implications take place.
The work will consist of two parts: one in which I offer a possible alternative to the theory of relevance, and another in which I apply this theory to the resolution of how the premise involved is found.
What we will discover in the work, as for the topic of relevance, is that the relevance must be understood as a diadic relation, and as for the topic of implications is that the way of reasoning in these cases can not be assume a premise (premise involved) and then see what conclusion is reached, but what we must do is find the right premise that allows us to reach one of the possible conclusions. The method, then, is not a method of hypothesis formation and subsequent verification but that at the moment in which the hypothesis is found, the verification is not necessary, since the hypothesis that has been assumed is the just one to reach the desired conclusion.