The Grice Club

Welcome

The Grice Club

The club for all those whose members have no (other) club.

Is Grice the greatest philosopher that ever lived?

Search This Blog

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Hitler, Bormann, Goering, Himmler, and other idiocies

--- In "Actions and events" (PPQ, vol. 67, p. 14) Grice considers:


---- (Ex)(Western democracies are corrupt; x!)

---- She was as gentle as a yound child; Himmler!

---- Theose pictures are very valuable, Goering!

---- The toast is burned, Bormann!

---- Snow is white, Hitler!"

Grice comments:

"What is wrong with these idiocies seems, primarily, to be that no account at all has been provided for [their] purpose".

But then he is echoing, this professor of the philosphy of religion in Oxford "not so long ago"

---- Snow is white, God!

----

No comments:

Post a Comment