Vulgar Grice and Learned Eddington

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We've seen the great respect bestowed by Doctorow on Eddington. One we share! Grice played with Eddington's table in his "Learned and vulgar" notes in the Grice Papers.

Here's more on Eddington. What can be more learned than his 'wavicle'?

"We can scarcely describe such an

entity as a wave or as

a particle; perhaps as a compromise

we had better call it a ‘wavicle.’"


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"To think that a particle

or wavicle or whatever, is

small for us, therefore

it is small for the Universe, is to be

biased or homo-centred." (The New Scientist, publ. 1976).


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Now, analyse:

"The wavicle is not small" in Gricean-cum-Aristotelian terms.