Thursday, July 15, 2010

In attack of a slogan

If Grice became famous for his joint "defense of a dogma" with Strawson, there's much of an attack of a slogan,

Witters's "meaning = use"

in "Prolegomena". I think it all starts on p. 2 of his "Way of Words", then:

Grice writes:

"Indeed, the precept that one

should be careful NOT to confuse

meaning and use is perhaps on the

way towards being as handy

a philosophical vade-mecum as once

was the precept that one should be

careful to identify them."

!

Trust Grice to give a round touch to a better slogan!

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