Friday, January 29, 2010

Grice on σήμη

My marginalia on Chapman, p. 70, where she cares to expand or inpand on Grice on Peirce or rather early Grice _contra_ later Peirce.

One is surprised that the early Grice (well, mid-forties Grice) was so _against_ Peircean lovely Grecianisms ('symbol', 'icon') and prefers the blunt Anglo-Saxonism

those spots mean measles

instead. Surely 'semeiologia' is the Greek term here.

Eco's pupil wrote a magisterial book, "Theories of the sign in Classical Antiquity" -- is there another? Pretty verbose but I have reviewed it elsewhere -- CLASSICS-L. It was all about 'semeia' in Herodotus, Hypocrates and Aristotle's physiognomica. What happened then? All you need is Loeb.

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  1. Grice would tell his students that 'semeiologia' is a krypto-technic lexeme! And perhaps he would be right!

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