--- abstract: |- 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. altloc: - http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~akman/jour-papers/jprag/kesey.txt chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Akman given: Varol honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2000 date_type: published datestamp: 2000-09-08 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/09/59 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Mey given: Jacob L. honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 959 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_plain.png;/959/1/kesey.txt full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: "Irony, Metaphysics, Stories, `What is said'" lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:23 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 4 pagerange: 485-489 pubdom: FALSE publication: Journal of Pragmatics publisher: Elsevier refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:35:50 subjects: - ling-prag succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Relating to Ken Kesey's Wise Man type: journalp userid: 178 volume: 32