One of Grice's favourite words: "autonomous"

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DISCUSSED BY DAVIDSON, too, as per quotes in Doyle, I. P., on Davidson. But Davidson called himself an anomalist, rather.

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From Liddell/Scott, online


αὐτόνομ-ος , ον,


A.

"living under one's own laws, independent, of persons and states,

Hdt.1.96, 8.140.άutonomous,

Cratin. 15 D., etc.; freq. in Th.,

αὐtonomos ἐπὶ σφῶν αὐτῶν οἰκεῖν

Id.2.63;

ἀφιέναι αὐtonomos τινα

Id.1.139;

αὐtonomos ποιεῖν τινα

Id.5.33;

αὐtonomos ἀπό τινος

X.HG 5.1.36, cf. Lac.3.1;

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πόλις . . ἐλευθέρα καὶ αὐtonomos
------------------------------- city, free and autonomous

IG3.481, al.;

αὐtonomos πολιτεία” Plu.Rom.27.

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2. generally,

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of one's own free will,
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ἀλλ᾽ αὐtonomos
Ἀΐδην καταβήσει”

S.Ant.821 (lyr.).


3. of animals,

feeding and ranging at will, AP7.8 (Antip. Sid.).

------------------------- Grice's Stage II of 'free'.