[lit-ideas] Grice on "the chain of being"
- From: "Luigi Speranza" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "jlsperanza" for DMARC)
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- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 19:08:04 -0400
On Jul 17, 2016, at 3:53 PM, david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
of goals that great professional players score. Apparently my dreaming brain
knows its place in the Great Chain of Being.
Grice loved that essay!
Lovejoy, Arthur Oncken, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of
an Idea. The William James Lectures Delivered at Harvard University. Harvard
University Press.
Grice was of course also a William James Lectures, which means that the (c) of
both Lovejoy's and Grice's essays ("Studies in the Way of Words") belongs to
"The Fellows of Harvard College". Once you accept being a William James
Lecturer nobody can publish your essay BUT Harvard University Press.
While Grice loved Lovejoy's metaphor of the great (Grice preferred long and/or
big) chain, he preferred an essay by Canadian G E L Owens, The Snares of
Ontology.
Grice considers, contra Lovejoy, that Aristotle was snared. There are TWO
chains and thus two ideas which Grice calls:
i. Socrates izzes human.
and
ii. Socrates hazzes white.
Cheers
Speranza
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