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Friday, January 29, 2010

Blessed Grice (Was: "Silly")

My marginalia to Chapman, p. 67

quoting from Grice:

"Grice is dismissive of a third position, an explanation from behavourism describing psychological concepts purely in terms of observable responses. He rejectssuch approaches as 'silly'"

Hope Chomsky bites it, I wrote.

Of course, by Speranza participial

'x, etymologically, means y'

we get that _Grice_ was the blessed one!

1 comment:

  1. By transitiveness, Grice is calling Ryle 'silly', for the only serious behaviourist in Oxford then was the infamous author of the infamous "Concept of Mind"!

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