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Madison gets annoyed because her friend susannah forwards to her every chain email that lands in her inbox. madison needs to tell susannah to stop violating the maxim of _______.

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Madison needs to tell Susannah to stop violating the maxim of "quantity".The maxim of quantity, where one tries to be as instructive as one can, and gives as much data as is required, and no more. Grice's maxim of quantity entails that you make your commitment to the discussion as educational as is required for the present discourse.
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