Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Footnotes to Grice

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Whitehead wrote that metaphysics was footnotes to metaphysics, and he was right!
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  1. Luigi SperanzaApril 28, 2010 at 8:10 PM

    The quote, which I referred to in my "Way of Conversation" (cited in the rbjones pdf document) is

    "The safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

    A. N. Whitehead, "Process and reality", 1929, p. 69.

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  2. Luigi SperanzaApril 28, 2010 at 8:11 PM

    "The safest general characterisation of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
    My rewrite:
    "The safest general characterisation of the
    European pragmatic tradition is that it
    consists of a series of footnotes to Grice."

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