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Monday, April 25, 2011

Ryle and Grice on 'because'

Ryle:

"to explain an action as done from a certain motive is not to correlate it with an occult cause, but to subsume it under a propensity or behaviour trend. But this is not enough. To explain an action as due to habit, or as due to an instinct, or a reflex, squares with this formula, yet we distinguish actions done, say, from vanity or affection from those done automatically in one of these other ways.


(Concept of Mind, p. 110).

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