Monday, March 24, 2014

Grice on Trust in Conversation

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Speranza -- Was emphatic about.   On the other hand, there's Mary McCarthy.   She would say of Lilian Hellman:   "E...
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Wear Green: The Implicatures

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Speranza Echoes from St. Patrick's Day.   A cartoon strip of DUSTIN:   Girl: OUCH! Dustin: I pinched you because you'r...

Wear Green: The Implicatures

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Speranza Echoes from St. Patrick's Day.   A cartoon strip of DUSTIN:   Girl: OUCH! Dustin: I pinched you because you'r...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Grice's Ducks

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Speranza From today's World Wide Words:  © Michael Quinion 2014 http://www.worldwidewords.org. "A headline over a story from ...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

As Soon As Possible: The Implicature

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Speranza It was in a television programme, a chapter of a well-known series, that something like the following conversation took place: ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Grice: A Marxist

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Speranza     “My taste is for keeping open house for all sorts and conditions of entities, just so long as when they come in they he...

Six Conversational Implicatures A Minute

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Speranza Paul Tosey, Wendy Sullivan and Margaret Meyer have recently published a paper which investigates the origin of the claim that pe...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Grice's use of the variable 'phi' in "Causal Theory of Perception", p. 123: the pillar box seems red -- "seems phi".

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The Causal Theory of Perception. What is it? "Such a belief does not seem to be philosophical in character' (Grice 1961, p. 121)

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Oxford change, Cambridge change

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Speranza P. T. Geach writes: "As I have said, the question of ‘real’ relations is a question of how a true relational property l...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Oxonian Philosophers of Logic: Herbert Paul Grice and Peter Thomas Geach

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Speranza Peter Thomas Geach was a philosopher who argued that, far from being 'above logic’, the existence of God was in fact perfect...

The Grice Point, The Geach Point -- HERBERT PAUL GRICE and PETER THOMAS GEACH

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Speranza Peter Geach was a philosopher who argued that far from being 'above logic’, the existence of God was in fact perfectly logic...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Because Causes

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Speranza From World Wide Words: "Words of 2013." "The American Dialect Society continued its tradition of voting for its  ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Folksy Grice

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Speranza The concept of "folk psychology" (or as I prefer, 'folklore', to generalise) has played a significant role in ...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Folksy Grice

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Speranza All music is folk music. Folk psychology, or commonsense psychology, is the natural capacity to explain and predict the behavi...