Popish

-----------By J. L. Speranza, for the Grice Club



"Mungo Gryse was associated with the Abbot of Sweetheart Abbey in 1555, and later, during the religious turmoils of the 17th century, Robert Gricie of Buittle was accused of being a papist."

Indeed, that sounds like Grice alright.

In his "Prejudices and Predilections" he suggests that the Pope may have had a daughter with the English queen:

Let's call her Susan. Her husband, Tom.

"Tom is married to Susan,"

-- whose 'dossier' reads:

"a daughter of an English queen and a pope"

[no specifics disclosed].

Grice wants to say that "surely the case is a difficult one: the alleged emptiness of "Sue" should not work against our ability to understand the severity of the crime, if crime it was."

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For, in considering the different relations (or binary predicates):

-- is married to --

-- is a daughter of --


-- by our very appealing to such different, specific "relations" to the 'primitive' predicates, one can claim is such _distinct_ relations, rather than the empty set which the alleged vacuous predicate is made equivalent to.

His objection to this move -- to prove the inexistence of the aforementioned daughter -- has to do with what he feels an adhocness in defining the relations as involving NON-VACUOUS predicates. (p. 70).

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