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Friday, January 29, 2010

Helzerman's Autophoric

I think I did invite my ole friend Randy to contribute here.

He was once _so_ excited by my coinings that I came to love him (This is all publicly on record).

Basically, Helzerman was trying to refute a Latino in Berkeley. I forget his name, Basque name. He had written a thing on the Liar Paradox.

Helzerman did not like that.

So I said,

"Surely you are avoiding Halliday's autophoria"

For Halliday, there's

ana-phoric

(e.g. The king is dead. Long live the king) (??)

But there's also

cata-phoric

and

exo-phoric

and

endo-phoric

But the liar is _autophoric_.

This, and my haecceity, which Helzerman thought I had coined, but it's a duns-scottism, Helzerman was _over the edge_.

1 comment:

  1. Oops.
    ObGrice: I forgot this was to comment on Chapman citing Grice on 'reflective' (Chapman, p. 132, citing Grice 2001).

    -- such an _uglier_ term, reflective, when autophoric does perfectly.

    "For Grice, the

    Op3-sub alpha

    is subdivided into A, reflective and B, imperative cases."

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