Grice’s Principle

2009

Metal plaque on wooden board.

The language philosopher Paul Grice attempted to clarify maxims as a principle for communication. This plaque uses common boards to regulate as a carrier for his ‘Principle of Communication’. What was meant to clarify reads as a complex general rule.

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2009.

Museum Bärengasse, Zürich 2013.

Photo: Paul Brunner