Myro Can't Get It Right

Myro was a charmer, but his prose lacked Anglicism. He was a refugee from Ukraine, and while Oxon-educated, he could be somewhat blunt.

As when he coined the "Grice Rule" in the PGRICE festschrift.

Myro baptises the following the "Grice Rule" -- words to that perlocutionary effect.


"After spending quite my share
of time at Grice's graduate seminars
which we would sometimes deliver
jointly -- weekly and on Fridays of
course --, I came to concoct what
I termed Grice Rule."

"IF what Grice says strikes me
as immediately RIGHT, then it's
possibly mediately WRONG."

As a corollary,

"If what he says strikes _one_
as immediately wrong, then it is
mediately _right_."

He cared to apply this "Grice Rule" to this idea (by Grice)

that

2 + 2 = at time t1, 4

"Identity as time-relative".

Myro is also to be credited for turning Grice's System Q in honour of Quine onto System G, in honour of Grice.

Myro dedicated his Rudiments of Logic -- which he wrote in collaboration with students of his at Reed -- to "Paul" but he didn't mention the surname. I suppose this _is_ Grice.

Sally Haslanger allowed me to have a look at Myro's unpublished "System G". I was so fascinated that I expanded it into a System G-HP

a highly powerful extension of Myro's System G.

or

a hopefully plausible one, at any rate.