Friday, January 29, 2010

Aristotle and Grice on mustard

My marginalia on Chapman p. 60 on my preferring Grice's


botany

-- as applied to 'linguistic'

than the more frequent, alas

botanising.

JL

"Is mustard a mineral?" Alice in Wonderland
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2 comments:

  1. Luigi SperanzaJanuary 25, 2017 at 10:13 AM

    Obviously, Austin was trying to be funny when 'botanising', i.e. turning botany into a performative, almost!

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  2. Luigi SperanzaJanuary 25, 2017 at 10:13 AM

    Call them The Oxford Botanists -- of implicature!

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