Grice: Lat. and Long.

Grice became, in time (due is otiose), such an expert on things that he grew intolerant of less brilliant philosophers as he was:


He came to adjudicate the following implicature:


Mr Puffock is our man in aesthetics.


(Mr. Puffock does not know what he is talking about -- or 'talks from his ass').

"Surely," Grice says, "philosophy is entire" (like virtue).


Philos: Long.
Lat.

-- as a good RN Capt, he loved a co-ordinate.

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"In speaking of the "Longitudinal Unity of
Philosophy", and the "Latitudinal Unity of
Philosophy", I am referring to the unity of
Philosophy through time and through
subdisciplines. Any Oxford philosophy
tutor who is accustomed to setting essay topics
for his pupils, for which he prescribes reading
which includes both passages from Plato or
Aristotle and articles from current philosophical
journals, is ONLY TOO WELL AWARE that there are
many topics WHICH SPAN the centuries; and it is
only a little less obvious that often substantially
similar postions are propounded at vastly
differing dates".
(H) P Grice, "Reply to Richards", in
R. Grandy & R. Warner, P.G.R.I.C.E.,
Philosophical Grounds of Rationality:
Intentions, Categories, Ends. Oxford, p.65.


* It is true that some Oxford philosophers (Grice included) were "parochial"
but this had to do, I think, with the typical Oxonian "diagogic" approach to
the discipline: philosophy as a result of actual dialogue. So, they prefered
to discuss the ideas they THEMSELVES had rather than discuss "in theory" the
ideas of Berkeley, Hume, or Kant... But this is simplifying the picture a lot, esp. when it comes to our favourite Oxon don of all time: Grice.