A Shuga-Fix

By J. L. S.

for the G. C.

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Grice doubted, "If I keep keeping the footnotes, they will under-snow me".

Little by Little, he started to get rid of them.

In 1970, for example, he got onto a discussion with Hans Sluga over "the".

For he found that Sluga wanted to _cajole_ Grice onto thinking that 'the' is not after all the iota operator Russell thought it was.

Grice granted Sluga the point. He wrote that down in his handwritten notes,

"I owe this to Hans Sluga"

When Peter Cole -- who NEVER studied philosophy -- was typing this he got confused. The paper as presented in the Academic-Press volume, Studies in the Semantics and the Syntax, vol. 8: The Pragmatics, the note came out as


I owe this to Hans Shuga



--- When Grice was about to die, he was going through all the papers, and exchanging letters with, of all people, James McKinnon, for Harvard University Press.

McKinnon was arguing that most of what Grice wanted to publish for them was "otiose" in that readers may have already forgotten about it, or _will_ forget, eventually.

"Stuff and nonsense," Grice replied, "Why, you must just as well say that about King James's Authorised Version of the Bible."

And he did. I mean, McKinnon did say just as well the same about King James's Authorised Version of the Bible. "An overrated volume, if you axe me".

Anyway, Grice was being, once again, cajoled. So eventually he dropped the shuga fix.

But it's good this obscure historicist is here to illuminate you!