[lit-ideas] Re: Monkeys Can Speak
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:17:12 EDT
In a message dated 7/13/2009 10:11:02 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
pastone@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Well, at least type, anyway.
fellow minkey,
p--
----
Of course, not having read googlebooks Grice, Studies in the Way of Words,
iii, you missed the implicature.
Grice wants to defend Tarski
'snow is white' is true iff snow is white
-- but Grice notes,
"This seems insufficient. Sometimes we do say, "What my mother said was
true".
This is what Grice calls a 'blind' use of 'true', and it cannot be
rendered using the idiotic Tarski formula, which needs to QUOTE the allegedly
'true' sentence.
Grice says, "I might just as well say -- "What the policeman said was
true." If, at a later stage, I find out that what the policeman said was,
'Monkeys Can Speak', I can correct myself and say, "Of course I was wrong --
he
(the policeman) is an idiot."
Typing has nothing to do with it. Grice couldn't type.
"Some people,-- Grice notes -- think that a typewriter is
a useful machine, a valuable one [he is considering the
objectivity of value]. Not to me, who can't type."
Nor to me, who _can_ type.
Cheers,
JL Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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