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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Grice and Code

The reference in Code in PGRICE to Grice says:


"The relation between Form, Matter and Composite in Aristotle's Metaphysics Z"

which was apparently a paper at a conference held by the University of Victoria in January 1979, sponsored by the Canada Council.
But were the proceedings published, or did the paper appear anywhere else?

My own interest at present is in Plato and Aristotle as providing an early approximation to the analytic/synthetic distinction, (as the essential/accidental distinction, or the necessary/contingent) and in the relationship between metaphysics, semantics and epistemology in this area, most of which must have been of interest to Grice also.

I did make a start in my "PDF" which started from the Code formulae and later went into the syllogism, and I did come out of that knowing a lot more about Aristotle than I did when I went in.  But I didn't come close to understanding fully any of the parties involved even in this limited domain (Plato, Aristotle, Grice and Code), and now that I feel once again the need to trace the history of Hume's fork I can probably do best by revisiting the Code paper.  But it looks like the corresponding Grice paper will prove elusive, perhaps it was never in print.

I do now have the one on multiplicity of being, which looks to me a nicer piece (and more relevant as it happens) than Grice's Eschatology paper in WOW, which I have not been able to get on with very well.

Roger Jones

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