Ryle, Strawson, and Grice on 'so' and 'therefore'

by JLS
for the Grice club.

--- RYLE WAS A NON-MEMBER of Grice's Play group and we shouldn't be discussing him here (just kidding) but I found his "If, so, because" essay in googlebooks, and:

I notice he uses -- I use exact collocations to retrieve Google hits:

""so" or "therefore" sentences"" -- p. 302 of Black.


----- Ryle makes the important or interesting point that he should be concerned with "so" -- rather than with Moore's variant, "p entails q" -- "entails" is not a word used by the players but by the spectators (of the game of logic, that is).

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Ryle argues -- citing from Carroll, Mind 1895 essay -- that 'p; therefore, q" is NOT an assertion or a statement. It is, he says, 'an inference'. No wonder Winch was confused about this too when he wrote as he wrote and as cited in the Tortoise-Said-To-Achilles wiki entry.