I hereby disimiplicate.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quoting dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
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One problem is that the court perhaps never read Witters:
meaning = use
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For good reason. W never maintained anything even remotely resembling
that.
(The trick is to read slowly ...)
Walter O
Ryle.
with the attending disimplicature
meaning ≠ misuse
Grice gives an example: he made a brass placque shaped as a written
representation of the word
i. MOTHER.
But he claimed that it would be otiose that by doing so, one could claim
that
ii. One is using "mother" to secure one's papers from the wind.
That's ONE lesson Grice learned from witty Witters.
Grice speaks of the "ESSENTIAL" use of words -- such as the word 'mother'
-- versus other usages, some of which are indeed misuses and others are
misusages.
Grice borrowed these distinctions from Witters's enemy in Cambridge:
the
Cheers,
Speranza
References
Ryle, G. and J. N. Findlay, "Use, usage, and meaning" -- symposium of
Aristotelian Society, repr. in Parkinson, Theories of meaning, OxfordOxford.
readings in philosophy, ed. by Sir Geoffrey Warnock, Vice-Chancelor,
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