[lit-ideas] Re: Prince Maurice's Parrot

Quoting Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx:

snip
> Grice's idea, ultimately Cartesian, is that there are TWO and only TWO  
> faculties of the mind, the will and the intellect, as W. Oksh. also pointed 
> out.

Yet again JL insists on knowing my own mind better than I. I have never made any
claim even remotely resembling the one he attributes to me above. Actually,
JL's attribution is ambiguous; it is not clear which of two possible claims I
am supposed to have pointed out. Let me thus say that neither possible claim
withstands the test of careful reading and basic respect for others' views and
ideas. 

Lest I appear ungracious, I appreciate some of JL's contributions here. But I
really dislike being told what it is I believe when I don't. And it's not just
the philosopher in me ...

Walter Okshevsky
MUN







>  
> In "From the banal to the bizarre" Grice attempts to REDUCE 'judging' to  
> "willing" -- and he succeeds. He notes, however, that a similar reduction of 
> 
> 'willing' to judging would be possible.
>  
> Personally, being a classicist, I use 'Greek' terms for these two abilities 
> 
> (dunameis) of the mind, as Galen calls them -- in LCC --.
>  
> I use
>  
> 'doxa'    (or 'doxastic') for the cognitive side (after Gk.  'belief' as 
> opposed to 'knowledge')
>  
> and I use
>  
> 'boulomaic' (from Gk. 'boule', will) for the volitive side.
>  
> -- In a dual scheme like that -- which can be reduced to a monist scheme -- 
> 
> there does not seem to be a place for a distinction between 'judging' and  
> 'thinking'. 
>  
> But then it's back to Prince Maurice's Parrot -- discussed by Locke and  
> Geary ("I guess the parrot is saying, "If I parrot, he will feed me"). 
>  
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> JL
> 
> 
> 
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