By Roger Bishop Jones for The Grice Club
Another one, not really connected with Grice, is ``Platonistic''.
Is there such a word, and would there have been had I not used it already?
There is of course, another Platonic adjective, which I so strongly associate with the lustless love that I am reluctant to use if for anything else.
Am I out of line here? Are both these terms current, and is there a discernible difference of meaning?
RBJ
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
Will check this, too. Wouldn't know.
ReplyDeleteThere is just "Platonism" in the philosophy of mathematics, I would think. Hence the simpler adjective would indeed be 'platonic'. But you are right that with the associations that even Grice consider ("He is meeting a woman this evening" -- not his close Platonic friend, one of the implicatures, in WoW:37) I double check and see that Grice disallows the capital P here and has this as 'platonic' -- so perhaps we can stick to lower-case platonic to mean lustless love, and Platonic to mean Bourbaki, or something.
I added a post blong on Platonism and 'platonic' and Grice's "Perhaps that is what Plato went in for" -- 'circle'. Etc.
ReplyDelete