Morosophical

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I owe to Ian Dengler Cargan the point about 'morosophy'. It's very strange that there are so few hits for 'morosophical' so here we go.

For Grice,

a philosopher KNOWS things.

People usually don't.

There is one sort of philosopher who does NOT know things. As when Johnson kicked the stone to refute Berkeley. Johnson KNEW: Berkeley knew diddle. So, to go against common sense is "morosophical".

A morosopher is the one that abides with 'common sense' as built in 'ordinary language'. "At one time is the sun raising today?", she asks. The sun, literally, never raises. Rather, the situation, as anyone who's gone to the moon realises, is different: the moon, the sun, etc., all gyrate in such a way that it's US we gyrate. etc.

So, to say, "the sun raises from the east" is morosophical.

Grice tried to fight with the morosopher:

He not always won.