H. P. Grice on the buletic-doxastic distinction

Grice on Frege

Gilbert Ryle attends one of Grice's Play Group's meetings!

H. P. Grice agreed with Tarski about 'snow is white' being true if and only if snow is white -- but not with Davidson about 'snow is white' being true if and only if grass is green

H. P. Grice and R. M. Hare discuss the neustic-phrastic distinction: "Post the letter; therefore, post the letter or burn it!"

H. P. Grice: "Paton's essay opened new paths for me!"

H. P. Grice reads Paton's "Categorical Imperative" and understands it -- even if does not "agree with one word in it!"

H. P. Grice on alcohol-free, sugar-free, and implicature-free

Grice thought that Kant's use of 'autonomy' was more serious than his use of 'freedom'

Grice distinguishes between 'hypothetical' and 'conditional;' Austin doesn't!

H. P. Grice and The Oxford Conversazione Society

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H. P. Grice on G. E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles

H. P. Grice: "I wish that I had been Napoleon"

Urmson's Apples and Grice's Cabbages

"My neighbour's three-year old child understand Russell's Theory of Types": the implicature

It's a piece of cake?

H. P. Grice on "Never contradict," Jacky Fisher on "Never explain"

H. P. Grice and J. O. Urmson on Grecian versus Griceian

"Perhaps he shouldn't have translated it!" -- H. P. Grice

Grice liked his tutees to read Grecian!

H. P. Grice on Simplicius: "He has beautiful handwriting -- if it is indeed his!"

H. P. Grice was amused by the fact that J. L. Austin borrowed 'operative' from Scots law -- "but never returned it!"

H. P. Grice and J. O. Urmson on the implicatures of supererogation

H. P. Grice on J. O. Urmson on the emotive theory of ethics

H. P. Grice and R. M. Hare -- The Conversational Implicature Connection!

"Perhaps Strawson should have titled his essay in descriptive metaphysics 'Individuum'" -- H. P. Grice

H. P. Grice on C. L. Stevenson on the expression-communication distinction

commūnĭcātĭo , ōnis, f. communico (several times in Cic., elsewh. rare),

I.a making common, imparting, communicating.

I. In gen.: “largitio et communicatio civitatis,” Cic. Balb. 13, 31: “quaedam societas et communicatio utilitatum,” id. Fin. 5, 23, 65: “consilii,” id. Fam. 5, 19, 2: “sermonis,” id. Att. 1, 17, 6: criminis cum pluribus, Tiro ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14: “nominum,” i. e. the like appellation of several objects, Plin. 24, 14, 80, § 129: “juris,” Dig. 23, 2, 1: “damni,” ib. 27, 3, 1, § 14.—

II. In rhet., a figure of speech, = ἀνακοίνωσις, in accordance with which one turns to his hearers, and, as it were, allows them to take part in the inquiry, Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 204; Quint. 9, 1, 30; 9, 2, 20 and 23.

Note Cicero's connection of it with "anakoinosis." The idea of the 'common' is crucial

"Anakoinosis" is a figure of speech discussed by Cicero, where the utterer displays a figure 'in accordance with which the utterer turns to his addressee, and, as it were, allows his utterer to take part in whatever it is that the utterer is engaged.

Grice finds Stevenson's appeal to 'communication' circular, or not helpful, in "Meaning."