"In No Particular Order": Was Grice's Betes Noires

Kramer:

"We need a quick way to say "in an order
from which nothing should be inferred
other than the intention that nothing
be inferred from it.""

I see. Sounds Gricean enough.

Grice writes:

"As I thread my way unsteadily along the tortuous mountain path which is supposed to lead, in the long distance, to the City of Eternal Truth, I find myself beset by a multitude of demons and perilous places, bearing names like [in no particular order. JLS] Extensionalism, Nominalism, Positivism, Naturalism, Mechanism, Phenomenalism, Reductionism, Physicalism, Materialism, Empiricism, Scepticism, and Functionalism." (Grice, Prejudices and Predilections).

Grice's ordering




--- (That's the 'order of appearance')

The alphabetical order runs

Empeira, for Empiricism
Extensio, for Extensionalism
Functus, for Functionalism
Materia, for Materialism
Mechano, for Mechanism
Naturaliter, for Naturalism
Nomen, for Nominalism
Phaenomenon, for Phenomenalism
Phyz, for Physicalism
Positivus, for Positivismus
Redux, for Reductionism
Skepsis, for Scepticism

Next is the cast. Nominated for "Best Furrin Lingo Flick" -- "Grice: The Implicature: Now Playing"