What Socrates Was After: Carnapian and Griceian Interpretations

This below to indicate to R. B. Jones that perhaps Grice was not being hubristic when he compared Athens as "the other Oxford"

Look how subtle Kararzyna's position is.

She considers Burnyeat: a genius. She goes to note that Burnyeat misses a point -- a subtle one -- about 'analysis'. This is the type that Carnap and Grice were so good at.

So not only Athens was "the other Oxford" but if I could choose...

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Socrates Meets Carnap: Explication in the 'Theaetetus'
Authors:Paprzycka, Katarzyna
Source:Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy (Philosophiegeschichte und Logische Analyse), 2, 87-108. 22 p. 1999.
Series:Ancient Philosophy with a Focus on the Master Argument
Document Type:Journal Article
Subjects:EXPLICATION
Persons as Subjects:CARNAP
SOCRATES
Abstract:In the first third of the 'Theaetetus', Socrates develops a Protagorean-Heraclitean account of Theaetetus' thesis that knowledge is perception. It is natural to think that Plato's presentation of the views reveals that the theories of Theaetetus, Protagoras and Heraclitus are linked by implication (Burnyeat). I show that this position does not take sufficient account of the explicatory relations between the concepts of the theories. According proper space to explication not only allows one to be clearer about the structure of the transitions but clarifies many of the puzzles surrounding that part of the dialogue.