The Establishment and Grice

It's always very posh to meet at the Athenaeum, and reminisce on Grice and other eccentric tutors one may have had at "The Place".

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Yet, this is the rather more modest ('modester') view by Grice on the Establishment:

"It IS possible that SOME of the

animosity directed against so-called

'ordinary language philosophy' may have

come from people who SAW

this 'movement' as

A SINISTER ATTEMPT on the

part of the DECAYING ...

[E]stablishment, ... whose home

lies within the ancient ...

[stone] walls of Oxford ...

(not ... red brick) and whose

upbringing was FOUNDED

on a classical education [alla Highet],

to preserve

CONTROL

by gearing ... practice to

the deployment of a

proficiency SPECIALLY accessible

to the [E]stablishment, namely

a

highly developed sensitivity

to the richness of linguistic

use." (*)

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Hear, hear.

Compare with Wittgenstein and his inability to describe the aroma of Koffee!


---- "Prejudices and predilections, which become the life and times of Paul Grice", by Paul Grice (in Grandy/Warner, p. 51 -- aka Reply to Richards).