Grice and Grice and Grice -- and M. Davidson

Beware (or not) if you do a search with Philosopher's Index. They can tell Grice from their elbow ("The Philosopher's Elbow", the site should be named). They confuse "Grice" (as in "H. Paul Grice") with Godfrey Grice, a philosopher at UEA/Norwich.

Anyway:

The problem is that they philosophised on exactly the same things, but Godfrey has a PhD so he is usually referred to as "Dr. Grice".

Anyway, at:

http://lsv.uky.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0905B&L=CLASSICS-L&P=R421&I=-3

I wrote:

"M. Davidson in "Re: Res Plebeia?"
>[Elyot] merely claims that the
>Latin equivalent of [common weale]
>should be [res plebeia]and not res publica.
But isn't it, rather, 'bonum communis', translating the Greek? (twice in
Aristotle's Politics, "koinon agathon", Pol 1628b31 and Pol 1279b), and before him, the earliest attestation, in 5.90 of Thucydides' De Bello Peloponnesiaco 5.90. Cfr. the OED:
1440 Promp. Parv. 89 "Comowne thynge, or comown goode, Res publica."
1646 J. BENBRIGGE Vsura Acc. 2 "More fully would they emptie themselves into the Maine Ocean of the Common-Good."

For Grice (that's Godfrey) the common good springs from a contract. For Grice (that's Herbert Paul), it springs from a contract too. In fact, Grice's (that's Paul) rejection of contractualism is too hasty -- he fails to recognise the example from 'trust'. Etc.