In a message dated 1/18/2016 11:59:53 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
The truth, for Popper, is that our capacity to use language to engage with
W3 and convey W3 content is far too remarkable to be acounted for in terms
of an "essence" of language.
Perhaps the line of Popper's argument can be repeated vis–à–vis Socrates's
often-repeated pun:
i. Rationalis animal homo est.
i.e. man is a rational animal.
I can hear Popper saying:
"rationality is far too remarkable a feature in human beings -- that we
call 'persons' -- to be accounted for in terms of 'essence'".
But that is precisely Socrates's and indeed Grice's points -- in P. G. R.
I. C. E., philosophical grounds of rationality: intentions, categories,
ends.
The ability to reason may be too remarkable, but that does not impede it
to be the very essence of what a person is!
Cheers,
Speranza
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