Monday, February 8, 2010

The Primacy (for Grice) of the Boulomaic

From:

Logic in linguistics - Google Books Result by Jens S. Allwood,
Lars-Gunnar Andersson, Östen Dahl - 1977 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 185
pages
... has to do with logical possibility), epistemic logic (which has to do
with knowledge and belief) and even boulomaic logic (having to do with
desire). ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0521291747...

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Grice uses 'volitional' (Grice 2001, Aspects of Reason) but he means boulomaic.

The advantage of 'boulomaic' is that it's less of a hybrid. It's pure Grecian. It contrasts with 'doxastic' and allows for 'sub-doxastic', 'sub-boulomaic'.

Grice proposes the reduction of the doxastic (or .-accepting, or judging, to !-accepting, or willing in a crucial section of his Method, from the banal to the bizarre). Enjoy!

--- "boulemaic" is less well formed than 'boulomaic' is.

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