Oxonian dialectic, Athenian dialectic

Speranza

We see that in "Notes for categories with Strawson" (the Grice Papers), Grice plays with words, alla Aristotle/Austin/Kant.

Grice notes that

'healthy'

can be applied to, or predicated of, 'person'.

Grice is experimenting to see which lexical items (terms) can successfully combine with others, trying out combinations of possible subjects and predicates.

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Grice notes that

'healthy' -- nomen adjectivum

can be applied to, or predicated of

common nouns such as

'person'
'place'
'occupation'
or 'institution'.

He also notes that

"medical" (another nomen adjectivum)

can be applied to common nouns such as

'lecture'
'man'
'treatise'
'problem',
'apparatus'
'prescription'
and 'advice'.

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Grice notes that the neutral term, 'employment' can cover the importantly different terms 'use', 'sense' and 'meaning', and that here it is perhaps most appropriate to say that the predicate has a particular range of 'uses'.

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The notions of 'sense', 'meaning', and 'use' need to be distinguished not just from each other but between discussions of sentences and of speakers.

"Need to distinguish all these
from cases where _speaker_ [utterer. Speranza]
might mean so-and-or or such-and-such, but
wouldn't say that of the sentence."

""Jones is between Williams and Brown" either SPATIAL order or ORDER OF MERIT, but doubtful this renders it an ambiguous sentence."

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