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Monday, April 26, 2010

Bayne quotes from Gallie 1936

-- by JLS
----- for the GC

BAYNE quotes from Gallie 1936 -- the essay referred to by Grice in 1941 -- at

http://www.hist-analytic.org/STRAWSON1959.htm

Gallie writes:

"[It]t might be held [...] that the sentence --"

"I am hearing a noise"

"is misleading in respect both

of its subject and predicate, since

the word "I" conceals a description of

such a type that, when it is explicitly

stated in words, the original predicate

of the sentence must be altered

if the result is to be a significant

assertion. ... We might [refer to this as

the theory] ... that the Self ... is

a Logical Construction." (_Mind_, 1936 p. 37).

--- This relates to "The Logical Construction Theory of Personal Identity" (The Grice Archive).

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