How Clever Language Is

--- By J. L. Speranza
------- for the Grice Club

THERE IS THIS IDEA THAT NATURAL LANGUAGE IS amorphous, vague, fuzzy, -- in short: a mess. On the other hand, Austin thought, like L. J. Kramer, that there is LOGIC to natural language. Like a living organism, English has evolved, and has embodied all the distintions that need to be embodied. Grice shared this credo with Austin, and I, too, except when I'm reading James Joyce.