Mr. Grice's father was Mr. Hardie -- and Aristotle, Plato

Johh Dever at

https://webspace.utexas.edu/deverj/personal/philtree/philtree.pdf

--- has uploaded some info he'd been collecting for years. In his attending blog, he has the expression, as provided by someone (I forget):

"Grice's father was Hardie".

Of course what is meant, as per pdf document is:

that Hardie was Grice's tutor at Corpus Christi. The document fails to provide dates or college associations, but we can do better than that!

Hardie ----- Grice (MA Corpus Christi, 1936).

Indeed, Chapman, in "Grice" spends some time on that. Apparently, it is the BA thing; but the proceeding for a BA to become an MA is 'automatic' sort of thing. Chapman wonders, since Grice took some time to become an "MA", whether monetary issues were involved (you have to pay a fee).

The idea of the college, "Corpus Christi", is important, because Grice had to be a student at Corpus (The House) to have Hardie (the Aristotle scholar) as tutor.

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In any case, Josh Dover is a genius! He traces the longest branch to Leibniz.

Of course, the Greeks were good at this too, and I propose:

Plato's father was Socrates; Aristotle's father was Plato. Socrates was an orphan.

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Later!