"It is obvious that VERY MANY WIDELY different answers have at one time or another been put forward; some of them have been WILDLY GENEROUS like Richard Robinson's 'You name it,' since anything you can [actually] _mention_ will win its share of the prize; some of them have been REMARKABLY NIGGARDLY, like what Broad [an otherwise tolerable philosopher] once [and just once] reported to be Hegel's solitary selection, namely the Kingdom of Prussia."
Friday, April 3, 2020
H. P. Grice reminisces on Richard Robinson's criterion for ontological acceptability: "You name it."
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