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JONES PROPOSES we concentrate on 'work' as used by Grice, WoW:
"we could call it "play", but Oxonians seem only to do this in a mob with nothing to write on."
I don't seem able to find it! i.e. Grice's use of 'work'.
In any case, I suggested we replace, 'work' by 'play'.
Jones objected:
"We could [use] "play" [indeed, as
Speranza suggests], but Oxonians seem only
to do this [to play, as in a Play Group]
in a mob with nothing to write on."
Too true. The implicature being that we don't do mobs at the club, and...
we DO have a blackboard? Don't think so!
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In any case:
My initial inability to comprehend:
"To play? Oxonians seem only to do
play in a mob with nothing to
write on."
This reminds me of The Mad Hatter's puzzle to Alice, as per the film NOW SHOWING, "Alice's adventures in wonderland":
i. Why is a raven like a writing desk?
ii. Implicature: I want to know.
iii. I actually want to know if you do know, because I know already ("Bravo! I love a riddle!")
iii. There is Something by virtue of which a raven IS like a writing desk.
Martin Gardener proposes:
iv. Well, Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both.
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The Grice Club IS a blackboard, or at least a white one, or at least, nothing but something to write on, or in.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly play here, though I'm not so playful.
Could writing a book (an encyclopaedic work like "The Grice Companion") be play? Hope so, there's no hope otherwise.
RBJ
Yes. I like the idea of "The Grice Companion". Have just found that Bancroft uploaded the Grice Archive (c) 2010, uploaded this month.
ReplyDeleteSaw some typos, which are playful.
They say he worked for the "American Psychological Associaton".
They do note that Rossall is a public school -- but they fail to note, "in the English sense of the expression".
They make it sound like he left Oxford for decades. He just taught Greek one term. So in my edition, the 'he returned to Oxford', I skip. He had never left it.
He is qualified as a "Professor Emeritus" of Oxford but he was a don. I love him.
The Bancroft are promoting this, so I hope that scholars will get in touch, require the item, and quote. I doubt many will, because academia being what it is, nobody cares for Grice anymore (I'm exaggerating).
I recall there was a query in PHILOS-L as to current research in 'free will' the philosophy of mind at Oxford. I provided my usual listing. They replied. "Thanks for the contact list. I would need a spiritist to help me in the session". He impliated: most people you quote are dead. But they were not. Pears did
die last year alas. So people don't care!
---- Anyway, Grice Companion sounds like a good thing. If they pay me, it's not work anymore, or was it the other way round?
--- Cheers! and later!