Turning Grice Onto An Analogist

--- by JLS
----- for the GC

--- LARRY KRAMER, this blog, referred genially to Grice as "a digital mind in an analogue world". I disagree, but friendlily, and I use "Grice" so vaguely that it may well mean a war-veteran whose coffin I found in Arlington, when visiting the cemetery (there).


---- PEACOCKE has a paper, entitled "Analogue Content" -- published in the proceedings of the poshest philosophical society in England, "The Aristotelian Society". It has been reprinted. Peacocke really doesn't care for 'analogue' (and Grice does list 'analogy' as a method in eschatological philosophy -- this would have appealed to Peacocke's father, the theologian). Peacocke cares for perception. And sense-content. Why would we say that Kramer recalls the colour of the red bicycle he first rode?

How do we turn that into a 'that-' clause? What is ANALOGICAL about 'seeing'. What sort of 'that'-clause follows an ascription of analogue content? For these issues Peacocke uses "non-conceptual" content which is YET intentional. Clever, eh?