The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy ... - In The Language of Morals, R. M. Hare called the common content of such sentences the phrastic [from Greek phrazein , literally what is said, ...
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One should wonder why Grice avoids to name a member of the playgroup: R. M. Hare. After all, Hare's idea of a phrastic should have pleased Grice. It is a classy term, from the Greek, and perhaps better than "what-is-said" which is what Grice must appeal to every now and then.
Now, Grice mentions 'phrastic' in WoW, and Aspects of Reason -- but never a little credit to the coiner!
Hare had been born in 1919, so it was Grice's junior (Grice had been born in 1913). I would think that Grice avoided to mention Hare because Hare was VERY well known as the 'ultimate' word in "Oxford moral theory", and any use of Hare's crypto-technicalities would have had the casual reader think that Grice was Hare's follower. Yes, philosophers are like that!
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