-- JLS
I was going to title this "annals" but I think it's rude -- cfr. 'anality'.
MEETING OF Sept. 15, 1948 -- Saturday. Place of Meeting. St. John's -- you know what room [*].
* Austin's favourite premise of the Group was 'that room at St. John's, the modern one, that made us look like smart-asses of some corporation, or stuff' (Warnock, "Saturday Mornings")
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Warnock was questioned by Austin to provide the distinction between "He played the golf properly" and "He played the golf correctly".
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"As far as I know," -- beware when Grice says this because he knows far -- WoW:376 --
ReplyDelete"the ruthless and unswerving
associations of philosophy
with the study of
ordinary"
--- i.e. EXTRAordinary, if you've heard some Cockneys --
"language was peculiar
to the Oxford schene, and
has never been seen
ANYWHERE
BEFORE OR SINCE."
"A classic miniature of
this kind of procedure
common at the Play Group"
"was Austin's request
to Warnock to tell him
the difference between
playing golf correctly
and playing golf
properly"
--- "That was," Sir Geoffrey recalls -- "NOT, precisely, at a Saturday morning. It was in front of PUPILS. Giving lectures with Austin was an altogether flintier experience."