The Four Dimensions in Griceian Key

by J. L. Speranza
for the Grice Club

URMSON write a paper with a provocative intent. It was the annual philosophical lecture at THE BRITISH ACADEMY: England's reply to all that's pretentious about France and Spain! -- And, instead of talking Plato's ideas (his forte) or some obscure grand topic, he entitled his lecture,

------ "The object of the five senses"

-- As Kramer reacted: they all overlap! (He says he can spy someone with his ears).

Simlarly, to provoke Doctorow, the header now.
The entry for Short/Lewis online Latin dictionary is NOT inspirational:

"dīmensĭo , ōnis, f. dimetior,
I. a measuring.
I. Prop.: “quadrati,” Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57.—
II. Transf., the axis of the earth, Hygin. Astr. 1, 3.—
2. Extent, dimensions, in gen., Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6, 36; 2, 2, 3 al.—So plur. Amm. 23, 6, 11.—
III. Trop.: “vocum,” Quint. 9, 4, 45: “versuum,” id. 48; cf. id. 52 and 85."

--- So: next: the speech-act approach: the dimension as the very obect of the act, 'dimetior'.