Hare Not Mentioned (Running with The Hounds)

WoW: 367

This is the SECOND Time (in a lifetime) that Grice uses 'neustic' ('natatory', in Tapper's rephrase) as invented, coined, by Richard Mervyn Hare, without caring to mention him.

If we get five items out of the mixed bag of 'dictiveness', Grice writes,

"if so, we shall perhaps be in line"

--- but not aligned --

"with those philosophers"

--- such as R. M. Hare, R. M. Hare, R. M. Hare, and R. M. Hare (I use the 'comma' as an "Oxford comma).

"who, in one way or another,"

--- cfr. R. M. Hare with R. M. Hare, for example.

"have drawn a distinction between
"phrastics" and "neustics,""

--- I use the double quotes in case you google this. I would have used simple quotes.

Grice goes on:

"philosophers, that is [to say -- he writes, but I find 'to say' VERY otiose], who, in representing the structure of discourse lay
a special emphasis on"

well -- the phrastic and the neustic.

For first comes the phrastic (you cannot swim before you cannot walk):

"(a) the content of items
of discourse whoe merits or
demerits will lie in such features
as correspondence or lack
of correspondence ['unalethic']
with the world."

and

"(b) the mode or manner [Kant, "Modus" if you must]
in which such items are advanced, for example
declaratively or imperatively"

----

The use of 'imperatively' to contrast 'declaratively' should amuse R. B. Jones. Surely Hare was later VERY careful in using "TROPIC" as the name for the 'mode'. And he added the 'clistic' for good measure -- to put a stop to it. ("The clistic is best realised in English by the full stop, to mark that the utterance is finished.").

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Grice goes on:

"or (perhaps one might equally well say) firmly or tentatively." That is, to say.