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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

The Limits of Griceian Interpretation

Sorry for the 'academic' title, but it's my pun an a reference cited by wiki under "Waste Land:

Brooker, Jewel; Joseph Bentley (1990).

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of
Interpretation.


Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 0870238035

--- What Grice found fascinating, apres Davidson, was 'charity' -- the so-called charity principle. Holdcroft has written about this in a good essay in Bouveresse-Parret on 'charity' and 'principles [sic in plural] of conversation.

How charitable you want to be with Eliot?

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