[lit-ideas] Re: Grice, "The General Theory of Context"
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 13:15:03 EDT
Yes, it's page 1. He STARTS his genial essay with that genial observation!
In a message dated 5/29/2010 7:59:36, palma@xxxxxxxx writes:
would you provide page numbers?
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
wrote:
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>
> In a message dated 5/20/2010 12:58:21 P.M., palma@xxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Would anyone be able to provide a precise location and quote of Grice's
> denying "context" makes any difference, or any philosophical difference
> of any value?
>
> ----
>
> Sure. It is "The General Theory of Context" and it is quoted pretty
> extensively by S. R. Chapman from archival material in her "Grice"
(Palgrave,
> 2006). The thing ("The General Theory of Context") is deposited in the
Grice
> Collection (at the Bancroft Library, Berkeley).
>
> He is considering the claim made by SOME philosophers that 'context is
> important'. Grice considers the claim IN CONTEXT as a joke.
>
> He wants to consider it "out of context".
>
> His point being that if the slogan,
>
> "Context is important"
>
> should have some philosophical bearing, it should be a GENERAL claim,
thus
> refuting itself. Hence the title, the "General" theory of context.
>
> My good reference here is Balderston, "Out of context", which quotes
> Strawson.
>
> ----
>
> This is vintage Grice, and he is concerned with Austin's flirtings with
> Gardiner and Firth and others who were so boring with 'context of
utterance'
> that it ended up boring Grice (and me!, for sure! -- and I use co-text,
in
> any case. I find the 'n' intrusive).
>
> J. L. Speranza
> Bordighera
>
>
>
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