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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Richard Robinson, "You Name It"

---- by JLS
------- for the GC

IN THE SELDOM QUOTED "ACTIONS AND EVENTS" (PPQ 1986) Grice quotes on the very first page (p. 1) the well-known Oriel Fellow, Richard Robinson, "You name it". This was, Grice tells us, Robinson's reply to what kind of ontology his metaphysics committed him. In other words. You name an entity, I commit to it. Very ingenious of this Oriel Fellow!

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