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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Minutes of the Play Group

-- 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".

1 comment:

  1. "As far as I know," -- beware when Grice says this because he knows far -- WoW:376 --

    "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."

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