R. S. V. P.

--- By JLS
------- for the GC.

I used to have loads of penfriends. Once I saw in the "Illustrated London", I think, an ad which I found funny.

It read, in big nice letters:

R. S. V. P.

Remember Stroke Victims Please

--- it was issued by the Association of Stroke Victims. I would append that in some letters of mine.

I recall one correspondent replied (I must have them somewhere):

"I hope you are not a stroke victim".

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Anyway.

One stroke too many.

R. B. Jones writes, in "Strand 5", THIS BLOG:

"In Frege we find that an assertion is something which is
formed by applying the (vertical) judgement stroke to some
proposition formed by applying the content stroke
(horizontal) to some expression."

Similarly, Grice refers, hatingly, in Grice's case to "one of the strokes" on p. 68. Actually, his wording is slightly more irritating, for he uses the 'one or other' redundant figure of speech. He is considering 'not':

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"Not", in spite of all that Plato said -- and that Grice KNEW Plato had said -- vide his earliest essay with the Harborne address in archival material as referred to in Palgrave "Grice" by S. R. Chapman --, Grice never thought that Scheffler was wrong:

Grice writes:

"If our language"

-- he means English --

"did NOT contain a unitary
negative device, there would be
many things we can now say which we should
be then unable to say, unless the language"

--- "our language", i.e. "English" -- rather than "their" language [cfr. Jenny, "In twenty-four languages, she couldn't say "no"" --

contained some

VERY ARTIFICIAL-SEEMING

[never looking]

CONNECTIVE

[and thus not unitary]

"like one or other
of the strokes."

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What's German for "stroke"?