Grice's "mark of stupidity"

Not his own!

Anyway, J was referring to the prevailing anti-humanist view in the philosophy of mathematics: platonism. As opposed to Platonism. I agree. I mean, I agree that's the prevailing mind set. Does a materialist have a mind set, incidentally?

Anyway, this is Grice on Quine -- last page of his opus magnum, Way of Words:

p. 385:

"The proper view will be that

analytic propositions are among

the inventions of theorists

[griceist theoreticians, rather]

who are seeking, in one way or

another, to organise and systematise

an initially undifferentiated corpus

of human knowledge"

-- so-called.

Grice goes on:

"Success in this area is a matter of

INTELLECTUAL VISION, not of good

eyesight. As Plato once remarked,

the ability to see horses without

seeing horseness is a mark

of stupidity."

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But then, pls refudiate stoopid.