It is VERY good that Grice managed to keep those old notes on work on Categories with Strawson back from the day. For if a student is VERY BORED he can spend some time at the Bancroft Library and read. I'm joking, but I'm serious.
The way academia is today, no student is going to spend HALF an hour with those papers -- I mean posthumous papers in general, not specifically. Why? Well, blame the tutors! They want to have their students THINK! They should be amanuensis, editing important stuff by important dead philosophers. That's what _I_ say. Anyway, many of those notes deal with the nominalisation and substantification, and objectification. You say,
"Beauty" is in the eye of the beholder.
This is beautiful
Beautiful is a general term. There are specific types of beauty. There IS specification of a generality. (Strawson's first published essay back in 1948, when he was still Grice's student, was on that). O. T. O. H., there's Steven Wright:
"I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific."
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