[lit-ideas] What A Pirot Can Do
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:11:57 EDT
I'm studying Grice's pirotology.
A pirot, for Grice, is anything you want it to be. He uses it to elucidate
what it means to be 'a man', in the philosophical sense of the term.
A man, Grice says, echoing Aristotle, is not _any_ animal, and an animal
is not _any_ plant (For Grice, men are animals and animals are plants, only
more, too).
A man _thinks_; an animal thinks, but in an animalistic way; a plant
_feels_.
Grice found that the word 'man' is over-loaded with tradition; so he
thought 'pirot' would be more picturesque.
Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intentions, Categories, Ends -
Google Books Result by Richard E. Grandy, Richard Warner, H. Paul Grice - 1988
- Philosophy - 512 pages
Suppose we are genitors — demigods — designing living creatures,
creatures Grice calls pirots. To design a type of pirot is to specify a
diagram and
table ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0198244649... -
The conception of value - Google Books Result by Paul Grice, Judith Baker
- 2001 - Philosophy - 164 pages
It would be advantageous to pirots if they could have judgings and
willings which relate to the judgings or willings of other ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0199243875... -
idem:
Such a manual might, perhaps, without ineptitude be called an IMMANUEL;
and the very intelligent rational pirots, each of whom both composes it and
from ...
Structures of agency: essays - Google Books Result by Michael Bratman -
2007 - Philosophy - 321 pages
Grice calls his creatures "pirots" and writes: The general idea is to
develop sequentially the psychological theory for different brands of pirot,
...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0195187709... -
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"Honest, I don't care what the dictionary says!" Grice one day confided to
J. L. Austin
"And that's where you make your big mistake", Austin replied.
From the OED:
"pirot" [Apparently < French pirot (1611 in Cotgrave: see quot. 1611 at
sense 1), although this is apparently not recorded elsewhere, and is of
unknown origin. Compare PIDDOCK n.] 1. A razor shell. 1611 R. COTGRAVE Dict.
French & Eng. Tongues, Pirot, the Pirot, or Hag-fish; a kind of long
shell-fish. 2. A piddock. 1686 R. PLOT Nat. Hist. Staffs. vii. 250 A sort of
Solenes (which the Venetians call Cape longe, and the English Pirot)..a kind of
Shell-fish deep bedded in a solid rock.
But Grice thought it was meaningless talk introduced by Lord Russell and
echoed by Carnap (Intro. to Semantics, 1943, "Pirots karulize elatically").
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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