Kant and ordinary German!

--- by JLS
-- for the Grice Club

IT WOULD be obscene to press the Grice/Kant connection too strongly. After all, Grice was an "Oxford ordinary language philosopher". The only point of contact with Kant is in the 'philosopher' bit -- Kant certainly did not qualify as an ordinary-language philsopher. I'm not sure he would use ordinary language even with his servants (if he had one). And certainly he never taught at Oxford.

Apparently, Kant knew Oxford well, geographically wise. He was once lecturing on Geography, and someone was surprised that Kant could recite the names of all the towns along the Royal Thames from Greenwich to the Isis and the Cherwell.

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