Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Oxford's art of midwifery

by J. L. Speranza
-- for the Grice Club

GRICE amusingly reminisces about Joseph, the Oxford tutor, in "Prejudices and predilections, being the life and opinions of Paul Grice" by Paul Grice. Joseph, Grice recalls, was "dedicated to the Socratic art of midwifery; he sought to bring forth error and to strangle it at birth." (Grice, 1986, p. 62).

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