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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Metaphor in Aristotle and Grice

Were the Greeks more metaphorical than the English?

From:

http://lsv.uky.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0901A&L=CLASSICS-L&P=R1913&I=-3

I think I loved M. Davidson's treatment of [this classic author] as being 'metaphorical'.

A bishop's bishop.

As when they say, derogatorily, that Grice was not a philosopher, but a philosopher's philosopher (M. Platts -- the sad side to this is that he doesn't think he is being funny, M. Platts doesn't)

I too thought of the phrase as meaning 'bishop' _apud_ 'bishop', or even
_inter_ "bishops", sort of "inter pares", but if he was a high-flown one, it may
not be what he meant!

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