G. A. Paul and H. P. Grice

--- by JLS
------ for the Grice Club.

Not much of an overlap, other than the important thing that Grice quotes him as being a member of the Play Group -- i.e. the non-official group organised by Austin on Saturday mornings for full-time tutors. They had to be younger than Austin. But I don't think I know much about G. A. Paul.

We all have read, of course, his "Is there a problem about sense data?" -- a rather rhetorical question of a title if you ask me. I sort of dislike those titles which seem to 'say', blatantly too, "NO, there is NOT a problem about sense data". (And they don't mean there are TWO).

The essay can be a bit of a bore, and if it were not for A. G. N. Flew reprinting it in the opus magnum, Logic and Language, people would be quoting him even less. I think he has other papers, too, and he was a Fellow of University College from 1945 to his death in 1962.

Anyway, here for the local history of the Play Group.