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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Grice: The Unrelentless Causalist

From PPQ, vol. 67, p. 21.

Grice brings in an element missing in von Wright's otherwise tolerable account: causaition.

"One way in hwich a non-basic event alpha might be connected with basic events beta1, beta2, etc., might be VIA CAUSAL connection: a consists in a CAUSAL connection between its subject-item S and one or more basic event, beta1, beta2, etc, which confer both event-status and temporal position upon a".

Echoes of Grice's early concerns with this vis a vis his "Causal Theory of Perception."

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