[lit-ideas] Amusing Mr. Ramos

Tres amusant!
 
Any philosophers' jokes to entertain  Andreas?
 
McCreery thought he was being funny when he  said,
 
       Mrs. Grice:  Herbert, the dog is eating the rug?
       Mr.  Grice: I know that -- but what am I to do
                      about it? It's an old, putrid
                     rug  anyway, and do we really need 
                     it?  Obviously the _kunos_ seems
                      to need it more than _we_ and
                     _you_  do.
 
---- Grice actually had no dogs, but cats. He  would name them in accordance 
with the places he found them. Thus
he had a white cat called Sausalito, and a  black-and-white
female cat called Oakland. A tabby was called  Moraga.
 
-- I hope that's amusing enough.
 
A. Ramos:
 
>To me, that's why language philosophy  is boring. It's just >a private game 
for a few academics. 
 
Oh, c'mon (as Americans say),  Andreas!
 
I know your PhD, but allow me to call  you "Mister" on the subject line. It's 
an echo of J. Orton's "Entertaining  Mister Sloane".
 
 
>To me, that's why language philosophy  is boring. It's just >a private game 
for a few academics. 
 
So you'll have to let us *try* amuse  you, even if we fail.
 
And you've done quite a bit with this  list and maintaining
it that it's the least thing we can  do.
 
The first to amuse you with linguistic  philosophy will
be Geary -- but he's sleeping now, so  we shall have to wait.
 
>It's just >a private game  for a few academics. 
 
Mind your words, kindly. I hope you  mean ACADEMVS grove!
 
If by Academics you mean, "not  destitute", then perhaps you are right!
 
I recently learned the meaning of "not  destitute" (if that's what it is) 
from Sean Penn's "Into the  Wild":
 
        OLD MAN (to YOUNG  MAN)
You're too young to go into the wild
                like  that.
        YOUNG MAN  (resentful)
                Hold  your tongue, man.
                I'm  old enough. And I'm no destitute.
                I'm  a high-school graduate.
 
----- (actually a B. A. -- from a  rather prestigious thing
in the South, it seems -- W. Hurt plays  the father).
 
For Plato, the Akademia was just that,  an out-of-wall outdoor thing where 
young men (and other) could ungird their  loins and talk 'metaphusika'. 
 
You are probably right about  Aristotelian 'science'.
But there's always  Plato.
 
Not all philosophy needs to be  _language_ philosophy,
but I _do_ believe philosophy is mainly  written in a
_natural_ language (and is thus part of  'literature'
or 'essay-writing'). And I say that as  the half-barbarian
I am, but with yet an ear to detect  philosophy when I
find it.
 
Cheers,
 
J. L. Speranza
   Buenos Aires,  Argentina.
 




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