Genial Title by Grice

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---- HEY, I MAY BE PROVIDING some genial thoughts as to why ALL of Grice's titles invoke a geniality! But at a later stage:

Way of Words -- was perhaps 'genial'. So was 'Personal Identity', and "From Genesis to Revelations", etc.

ODDLY Grice finds Austin's "Sense and sensibilia" unfunny. I tend to think of it as one of the most imaginative title by an OLP (ordinary language philosopher -- don't you hate it when you have the writer using a most acronymic kryptogram and killing the effect by elucidating it?)

While NOT perfect: the idea that students at Oxford could enrol in a course "Sense and sensibilia" (such a bore) by one J. Austin -- is a charmer.

Russell would say that Saturday mornings are NOT the right day or the right time to philosophise. One is HARDLY imaginative. Ah well. The other day, a cartoon in the daily I read (!) by Andy Capp read: wife witnessing football match: "In Saturday morning football, that is called the hangover head-on".

PART OF THE CHARM Of Grice's genius is that he was so creative with words (Hegel, too, but differently): 'implicature', 'immanuel', 'pirot', ... you name it. The fact that these creativity is hidden behind perfectly boring and respectable titles ("The Causal Theory of Perception", "Meaning", etc.) is yet another mark of Grice's genius! (There are seven of them -- such marks).