--- by J. L. Speranza
------ for the Grice Circle
--- I WILL BROWSE THE DOCUMENT, "Finding aid to the H. Paul Grice papers", issued by the Bancroft library. I will start backwards. The very last item is this: "Wants and needs". Can't we imagine what it contains?
It is dated 1974.
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Well, first the idea of a 'need'. Grice considered this in "Method in philosophical pscyhology". His example: "Toby, a squarrel, needs nuts".
As for wants. There's voliting. But surely Grice's point is that 'to want' is more basic than 'to will', and it corresponds more closely to 'to need'.
So this proves to be an interesting "unpublication". I would suggest D. W. Stampe edits it, since he as written extensively on "needs" -- if not wants.
Cheers,
J. L. S.
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