Pragmatic Reasoning Pragmatic Semantics and Semantic Pragmatics

This paper is concerned with the conceptual foundations of pragmatic reasoning (context-dependent reasoning). A general pragmatic semantics (a semantic analysis which includes a pragmatic parameter) is given for pragmatic reasoning, the logical properties of the various forms of pragmatic reasoning are discussed, as are many examples. The semantic pragmatics (the general study of choosing or inferring appropriate contexts) for pragmatic reasoning is then discussed, with illustrations from common sense reasoning and scientific reasoning.