[lit-ideas] "A pretty good guide to logical form"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:50:17 EDT
McEvoy quotes interestingly from Popper:
"From Popper's viewpoint there is, however, a link between the philosophical
obsession with 'meaning-analysis' and "still deeper roots: to animism"
[RATAOS, p.264]. And perhaps this is what you are getting at."
I am reminded of ... yes, sorry. Grice, when he writes about Aristotle
thinking that ordinary language is a pretty good guide to metaphysics.
"But to my mind much of the most significant opposition came from those who
felt that 'ordinary language philosophy' was an affront to science and to
intellectual progress, and who regarded its exponents as wantonly dedicating
themselves to what Russell, in talking about common sense or some allied idea,
once called 'stone-age metaphysics'.
The quote, also in Atlas's book on indeterminacy is:
"Work in [a more formal] style was directed to a number of topics, but
principally to an attempt to show, in a constructive way, that grammar (the
grammar of ordinary discourse) could be regarded as, in Russell's words, "a
pretty
good guide to logical form", or to a suitable representation of logical
form." (p. 60, Reply to Richards).
-- Thus, Peter can swim or Peter swim can, both translate as C(P, S).
-- And
"Errare humanum est" or "to herr is uman" as H(E, stc). Where
'spatio-temporal continuity'.
I'm also reminded of "Critique of linguistic philosophy" (Clarendon) where
the author quotes Strawson claiming that 'what's nonsensical in English must be
nonsensical in _any_ language".
Cheers,
JL
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