Grice and the Trade Commission

Grice liked a commodity -- yet he would reject some of the 'fanciest' technologies.

"What's the good of Scheffler's
token-type inscriptionalism
that wasn't good already
with St. Bonaventura?"


For Scheffler is a die-in-the-wool nominalist of the cutting edge, and Bonaventura was a relaxed realist.

The idea that all technologies and commodities are good is a liberal _prejudice_.

Grice wants to say he will work if a commodity works to decide about, as he puts it 'its certificate of legitimacy'.

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It's here where he joined the Trade Commission. For he found that CARNAP, qua Minimalist, was blocking the 'ranges and resources' of philosophical commerce.

FROM 'MINIMALISM'

range of philosophical explanation
being denied

Extensionalism intensional contexts -- quantifying in (Kaplan)
Nominalism abstract entities -- Plato's "Virtue"
Positivism ethics, mainly
Naturalism absolute value
Mechanism free will
Phenomenalism cause
Reductionism qualia
Physicalism the soul and her immortality
Materialism Psychical Research as Masterman liked it
Empiricism Innate Ideas
Scepticism the underdog
Functionalism idleness

Etc.