"Some like Witters...": Grice on the "followers of [Witters]"

Speranza

Interesting reference by Grice to the

"followers of Wittgenstein"

in WoW:374:

""A few years after the apperance
of [Strawson's] "An [sic] introduction to logical theory"
I was devoting much attention to what might
be loosely called the distinction betweeen
logical and pragmatic inferences. In the first
instance this was prompted as part of an attempt
to rebuff objections,

PRIMARILY BY FOLLOWERS
OF WITTGENSTEIN

[G. A. Paul?],

to the project of using "phenomenal"
verbs, like "look" and "see", to elucidate
problems in the philosophy of perception,
particularly that of explaining the
problematic notion of sense-data, which seemed
to me to rest on a blurring of
the logical/pragmatic distinction."


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Grice is referring to WoW:6, where again, the reference is
to

"those sympathetic to [Witters]"

whom he had referred to in the previous paragraph.

On p. 6, Grice refers to his own "Causal Theory":

"Another example which occurred to me (as to others
BEFORE ME [check] is that the old idea
of perceiving a material object involves having
(sensing) a sense-datum (or sense-data) might
be made vialble by our rejecting the supposition
that sense-datum statements report the properties of
entities of a special class, whose existence needs
to be demonstrated by some form of the Argument
from Illusion".

Grice goes on there to expand on those "sympathetic
to Wittgenstein."

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Again, when discussing the First Strand (WoW:342), while 'Witters' is not referred to, there is a nice expansion on whom Grice is thinking about, in the empiricist tradition: Ayer and Paul, or "Paul and Ayer" as Grice prefers.

I have discussed all this elsewhere, etc.

Note that the actual reference to Witters's "Philosophical Investigations" concerns

"seeing ... as", rather.

And so on.

Cheers.