JL: >>Dogma, bad. >>...Grice could be trusted to run to the defense of an underdogma. Wish I'd thought of those. But I'd had said: "Bad, dogma, bad!". I'm sure JL's familiar with the bumper sticker: "My karma ran over my dogma." If not before, he is now . Mike Geary ----- Original Message ----- From: jlsperanza@xxxxxxx To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 7:45 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] In Defense Of An Under-Dogma Geary: there you go with the dogma. I don't do dogma. ---- Exactly. Anyway, Grice and Strawson wrote this essay, "In defense of a dogma". Not that they liked the expression, but that person once associated with who Grice later refers to as the 'rednecks of Vienna' (PPQ, 1988) had written on "Two dogmas of empiricism". Years later, Grice confided (WOW, x) that this grandee of his student, Grandy, would with mischief point out that Cheers, JL "Rhyme and Reason -- A new way of looking at _things_" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail!