[lit-ideas] Re: Grice on Nihilism
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:52:25 -0230
Well at least we're not making jokes about German sausages. They're the wurst
kind.
Grading, grading, grating, Walter
Quoting Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>:
> Nihilism? Nothing to it.
>
> Robert Paul
>
> > Grice wrote "Vacuous Name" as a tribute to Quine (of all people! and on
> > all topics!). Grice argues for the sense (if not sensibility) of using
> stuff
> > like "Marmaduke Bloggs" to talk about someone who doesn't really exist
> (he
> > who climbed Mt Everest on hands and knees).
> >
> > Similarly, he (Grice) would have a word or two about nothing.
> >
> > (Formulate Nihilism using Grice's predicate calculus alla
> > Whitehead/Russell)
>
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