---- Grice quotes again Prichard in PPQ vol. 67, p. 11. What a GENIUS Prichard is. He is first cited by Grice in 1971 ("Intention and Uncertainty") where he disqualifies Pears for forgetting about Prichard. "Mine is an essay in neo-Prichardianism". Prichard had been edited in 1968 by Urmson -- Pears's senior by far.
--- In PPQ he is less of a closet neo-Prichardian.
Grice refers to 'the longstanding tradition
in ethics -- from the Greeks onwards -- and
which REACHED ItS PEAK IN PRICHARD."
Prichard reinvented 'willing'. It is 'willing-that' for Prichard. "I will that the footballer scores a goal". Never just WILL -- To.
"It is clear," mischiveous Grice has it, "from Davidson's [candid, naive] comments on Chisholm, that, ... he would have NONE of [Prichard's] ideas."
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We are grateful that Harman, at Princeton, did!
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