---- by JLS
In WoW:i Grice discusses,
"Such a good film!"
He wants to say the implicature is all there is to it! It has almost no logical form! I have developed this views elsewhere in connection with philosopher M. Silcox. I entitled my comments "The reluctant cannibal" (Eating people is bad) and "Bridges's dilemma" (a less fortunate title, but referring to some aboriginals in Tierra del Fuego who lacked the basics of morality language!). I will try to collect these things on this post, or commentary. So feel free! The title is a bit clumsy, but I like the idea that if"God" gets euphemised, does it, as "Good" -- in "For goodness sake", we can play a bit with Grice, too.
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Haha! Almost...no logical form? Is this the heap puzzle in reverse? I would say: P or too bad nope nothing at all.
ReplyDeleteWell, not quite. But I do like your idea of the 'sorites' in reverse. You should like this (sort of) but in the vernacular, 'sorites' comes out as something pretty _taboo_!
ReplyDeleteBut indeed, wasn't that Stevenson's claim.
(1) I like Picasso's _Guernica_.
(2) Picasso's _Guernica_ is a good painting.
Isn't it always more spontaneous and thus a better thing to express:
(3) _Guernica_!
-- the logical form of which ... escapes Frege?