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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

A "Humpty Dumpty Nightmare" in the Dreaming Spires

--- More on Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest:

"a calculus; and the Humpty Dumpty nightmare that there is, at least in those parts of it which most concern philosophers, no logic or order at all"

Grice and Humpty Dumpty as the anarchists they were NOT!

--- They were liberals! And Humpty Dumpty is CLEAR ABOUT this:

"I don't know what you mean by impenetrability"
"Of course you don't until I tell you"

"I don't know what you mean by impenetrability"
"That's a good girl".

"I didn't know what you meant by glory"
"Of course you don't until I tell you."

--- Discussed by Davidson, in PGRICE, ed. Grandy/Warner.



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