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!

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