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Monday, September 30, 2013

Grice on izzing and self-identity

Speranza

The keywords should be identity and self-identity.

But as early as 1977, in Victoria, Canada, Grice was presenting material in his exegesis of Aristotle. Grice comes up with I and H.

Two dyadic predicates.

Some of Grice's formulae include

xIx

i.e. as Grice has it, identity is reflexive.

As opposed to "H"

Grice reads "I" as izzing and "H" as hazzing.

1 comment:

  1. Izzing is closer to set theoretic inclusion than it is to identity. Both are reflexive, but identity is also symmetric which neither of izzing not set inclusion are.

    Hazzing fails to be reflexive because it is trans-categorial so its a "category mistake" or a type-error to assert that A hazz A.

    RBJ

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