[lit-ideas] Re: Ungriceful Grice
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:17:41 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 10/23/2013 1:47:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>"[Popper] is capable of combining high moral seriousness with impopper
humour: not many philosophers would devote a footnote entirely to the
following: fn.8 to "The Autonomy of Sociology" - "I wish to apologize to the
Kantians for mentioning them in the same breath as the Hegelians""
As McEvoy notes in his commentary, the 'combine' allows for Popper being,
on occasion 'impopper'.
Mutatis mutandis, Grice could be griceless, on occasion.
Notably G. R. Grice, the UEA/Norwich, philosopher.
Speranza
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The Grounds of Moral Judgment Hardcover – January 1, 1967
by Geoffrey Russell Grice (Author)
Product Details
Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (1967)
--- R. Paul writes:
"The citation Omar provided is from the Philosophical Lexicon, a
compilation of word play and puns based on philosophers' names and
ideas. Its origin lies in some irrelevant and irreverent thoughts that
came to Daniel Dennett, as he was preparing some lecture notes, in the
fall of 1969."
"Many of the original entries have disappeared, along with their
subjects' philosophical popularity, and new entries added. The Lexicon
originally circulated on mimeographed pages. Now its at
<http://www.philosophicallexicon.com/#P>"
"Here's the original entry on Popper, and a couple more."
[snip]
*grice, n. Conceptual intricacy. "His examination of Hume is
distinguished by erudition and grice." Hence, griceful, adj. and
griceless, adj. "An obvious and griceless polemic." pl. grouse: A
multiplicity of grice, fragmenting into great details, often in reply to
an original grice note.
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