Speranza
“My taste is for keeping open house for all sorts and conditions of
entities, just so long as when they come in they help with the house-work.
Provided that I can see them at work, and provided that they are not detected in
illicit logical behaviour … I do not find them queer or mysterious at all. To
fangle a new ontological Marxism, they work therefore they exist, even though
only some, perhaps those who come on the recommendation of some form of
transcendental argument, may qualify for the specially flavoured status of entia
realissima. To exclude honest working entities seems to me like metaphysical
snobbery, a reluctance to be seen in the company of any but the best
objects.”
--- Paul Grice, (1975) “Method in Philosophical Psychology (From the Banal to
the Bizarre)”, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical
Association 48, 23-53.
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