"Enough of a Rationalist" (Was: Grice)

---- By J. L. S.
---------- for the Grice Club

---- IN CONSIDERING WHAT HE calls the "fundamental question" regarding the corporal punishment that the CP (cooperative principle) imposes on ... corpora, Grice self-labels, "enough of a rationalist". We are following Kramer´s advice that "enough" is the quintessentially analog word.

GRICE DOES CONTINUE the phrase. It would seem:

"more than enough is too much"

i.e. in threshold analogic logic, "enough" defines "too", and "too" defines "enough" -- cfr. "all" defining "none", and "none" defining "all" -- apices A and O in any square of opposition.

If you here,

"You are too kind".

Don´t over-read. "too" kind is not necessarily a bad thing.

Although my ethics professor (O. N. Guariglia) would always say that "St. Theresa" was _too saintly_ (supererogatory) to count _morally_.

Grice says he is ENOUGH of a rationalist TO WANT TO find a rational basis for corp..., oops, the co-operative principle. And he does.

"Seek and ye shall find" (Cfr. "I found a wallet on the street").

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"Enough of a Gricean" is slightly more problematic.