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Monday, September 20, 2010

Grice's Antidisestablishmentarianism

We have been revising Grice's religious background. His father was a noted non-conformist (he would conform, logically, to ~p). His aunt was a Catholic convert. His mother (nee Mabel Felton) was an antidisestablishmentarian.

He may have inherited something from that trait of hers.

"In a country with an established religion (e.g. England), "antiestablishmentarianism" means support
for the end of the special status of the established religion."

"In the 1800s, some English people opposed a movement to
dis-establish as the church exclusively recognized
by the Government as the official religion of the country. That
countermovement was
Anti-dis-establishment-arian-ism. Antidisestablishmentarianism is usually cited as the longest word in the English language, but according to some definitions it is exceeded by several others."

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However, it is one that still implicates some long implicatures.

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