Yet Another Vague Wtitgentsein Reference By Grice

by J. L. Speranza
-- for the Grice Club

THE OTHER DAY I was casually commenting on Grice casually commenting on Wittgenstein ("a fork and a knife may look like a flower and a leaf") and R. Paul got somewhat offended! Anyway, I want to address the important points raised by J in his nice commentary to my rather dully titled post, on the doxastic-cum-boulemaic. As J notes, there's little about BELIEF!

There is a vague reference in Grice, Method in philosophical psychology, to Wittgestein. From memory, it reads, "No instantiation of psychological concepts without the behaviour that such instantiation is meant to explain". Or something. It goes uncredited, but it refers directly to Wittgenstein in, again, "Philosophical Investigations". As we know, Grice used Anscombe's early translation, dated 1955. Now there's a new one by P. M. S. Hacker, which should be preferred, if only because St. John's college, who gave Grice a salary for some years, is giving one to Hacker!

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It's yet a different thing what sense we make of the Witters quote!