By JLS
---- for the GC
---- GRICE RECALLS THAT when in Oxord, people were so cold to him it hurt. So, logically, he HAD to conceive an excuse for those odious questions:
"A: Ah! You did leave Oxford, right?"
What irritated Oxonians most was that he had not gone to Greece, or Italy, or even London -- but to the United States of America! And the Bay Bridge Coast: so cold, and windy, and so far from anything resembling civilisation. ("We do have an opera house in San Francisco").
So Grice devised an answer:
"I needed to be in closer contact with logicians."
It always struck me as somewhat recherche. Surely:
---- They are never so close: they are cold types, and if you were looking for the warmth that closeness brings, he chose the wrong type.
---- Why not just _write_ to them?
THE THING IS: Benson Mates.
Benson Mates IS different: he is warm, he is a logician, and he grows daisies.
Grice soon learned a few lessons from Mates. One of his first was:
Eadem sunt quorum unum potest substitui alteri salva veritate.
Grice notes, aptly, that this was exactly his account of conversational implicatum, only in the wiser lingo of the Romans. He adapted it.
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