Flew was farting and Austin was not.
The implicature is that speranza does not fart at all, Witters did only the
fÖhnen his mother would allow him (he -witters-reported that she was dead in
the most beautiful way.)
Keynes insisted that only Russian perfumes were coming out the sphincter of the
Apostles, but then they were in Cambridge, what do they know about serious
matters, like verbal botanical?
I often think speranza must have a large collection of cravats, in order to go
to minor opera houses in Manaus, at best in Parma
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Philosophy of the Weather (Was: Meteorologica)
"It's just atwix the ricks
beside the barn where Farmer sticks inside The chicks he only hatch'd today."
D. Ritchie writes:
"Spring has a certain certainty about it." and "wondering how far from
absolute certainty a certain certainty might be."
Indeed. I was recently reading the libretto to Rossini's libretto. At one
point, Otello says:
"sicuro son io del suo delitto"
which strikes me as Ayerian. For Freddie Ayer (Sir Freddie Ayer, if you
mustn't), to know is to be certain, to be sure. But surely Otello was 'sure'
(secure) and 'certain', AND wrong.
Omar K. comments on Spring:
"This particular spring has been kind of slow to show its hand; right now it's
looking like rain, but I don't believe it. We will see."
The above is a lesson in linguistic botany, in terms of the philosophy of the
weather. Note the reference to the Moore paradox, "It looks like rain, but I
don't believe it". Note the use of "look like" which is Wittgensteinian, and
the application to Strawson who in "Introduction to Logical Theory"
discusses the logical form of "It's raining" "what is it?", Sir Peter asks.
(That's Strawson). On top, Omar concludes with 'we will see', implicating
factiveness. In other words, we'll see it, 'before you know it'.
The weather is an interesting topic for philosophical speculation. It's a
branch of conceptual analysis.
Spring has a certain certainty about it.
