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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Grice on an "interesting weak notion of identity" (Grice, p. 134 of Davidson/Hintikka)

Grice is wanting to say that

Pegasus does not exist.

Bellerophon, as it happens, does not exist, either.

Yet, Grice feels like we may want to say that

"Pegasus is NOT identical with Bellerophon".

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He notes: "to develop a representation of an interesting

weak notion of identity, one such that Pegasus will be

identical with Pegasus but not with Bellerophon, I think

that one would need a system within which such

psychological notions as "it is believed that" were

represented."

---- And then this was edited by Hintikka!

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