As Every School Boy Knows...

Speranza

---- as Grice would say, there was no such thing as an Oxford school of ordinary language philosophy.

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I have traced the other phrase he would use:

"Ordinary Language Approach to Philosophy":

NOT a phrase HE woud use, but one that he "the other day", he writes, at the beginning of one of his essays in WoW, he heard from a "philosopher of science".

Grice spends some time (p. 171 of WoW) reflecting on why he found the phrase 'otiose' -- seeing that there was just not ONE approach -- but many.

THIS connects with Grice's point, as mentioned by Jones, that there was 'no school' of Ordinary Language Philosophy -- at most Austin's Play Group -- since there were no dogmas that united them (odd he would say that, since at least the defense of ONE dogma united him co-authorially with Strawson! :)) -- "as" a rejection for abstract entities united what he "might" (but then again he might not) call, rather intentionally pompously --, and with a provocative intent, I would think, the "American school of Latter-day Nominalists".

Etc.