[lit-ideas] Re: A Finkish Implicature
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:32:10 -0230
Quoting Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx:
>
>
> In a message dated 4/29/2010 11:46:46 A.M., wokshevs@xxxxxx writes:
> Surely virginity is a state, not a disposition. (Though not a state of
> mind,
> either.) The tendency to engage in behaviors and make decisions that
> promote
> virginity, on the other hand, would legitimately be classed as a
> disposition.
>
>
> "NOT to engage"
>
> the decision "NOT TO ENGAGE" in behaviours that
> dismote virginity seems to me more relevant at this point.
WO: I would have thought that the class of all behaviors and judgements
promoting virginity is materially equivalent to the class of all behaviors and
judgements "dismoting" virginity. (Btw: I would never accept "dismoting" as a
legitimate English word in Scrabble.)
Zum beispiel:
The class of all behaviors and judgements promoting Montreal's victory over
Washington - yes, there is a god - is equivalent to the class of abstinence
from all behaviors and judgements dysfunctional to Montreal's victory.
(Actually, "victory" is a huge understatement, perhaps even a category mistake.
Only divine intervention can explain this phenomenon. Pittsburgh in 4 (maybe
5)
In connotative and denotative sincerity,
Walter O
Guy Lafleur Professor of Sports Metaphysics
Department of Philosophy, Kinetics and Leisure Studies
Universite de Bague des Menteurs, QC
>
> In any case, Donal's vacuous claims regarding 'finkish virginity' stand as
> they were: vacuous.
>
>
> finkish:
>
>
> Term due to the contemporary Canadian philosopher C. B. Martin, to describe
> powers with the uncomfortable habit of failing to operate just as the
> occasion for their manifestation comes about. Thus intuitively a glass might
> be
> fragile, but also be protected by a guardian angel, who steps in and saves
> it when some accident is about to break it. So no normal manifestation of
> fragility ever arises. The possibility of finkish properties (or finkish
> situations) casts doubt on the plausible equation between an object having a
>
> dispositional property, and it being true that if such and such a situation
>
> arises, the normal exhibition of that property follows.
>
> J. L. Speranza
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