The Grice Club

Welcome

The Grice Club

The club for all those whose members have no (other) club.

Is Grice the greatest philosopher that ever lived?

Search This Blog

Monday, February 24, 2020

H. P. Grice: 'ordinary language' *is* clever


“And even if the requisite kind of purity is to consist in what I may term such logico-methodological virtues as consistency and systematicity, which are also those looked for in a scientific theory, what prevents us, in advance, from attributing these virtues to ‘ordinary’ language?”

‘Ordinary’ language is clever.

No comments:

Post a Comment