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Friday, January 29, 2010

Grice's Amanuensis

I'm not sure I should NOT be abide by "Speranza Participial" when I call Strawson (Sir Peter as he then was not) Grice's amanuensis.

For Strawson managed to _type_ ("A typewriter is a value-less thing", Grice comments in "Justification of Objective Value" in Reply to Richards -- "especially to me, as I don't type") Grice's handwritten

those spots mean measles

-- as uttered at the Oxford Philosophical Society, March 1948 --

and send it to The Philosophical Review. And the rest is legend!

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