[lit-ideas] Re: My Cup of Tea
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 07:51:02 +0000 (GMT)
And Aristotle, apparently, was a bugger for the bottle.
http://www.metrolyrics.com/the-philosophers-song-lyrics-monty-python.html
Dnl
On Thursday, 2 January 2014, 2:26, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And from Kant: "If a smuggled bottle of so-so vodka is available, rational
autonomy dictates us to abandon all the antinomies of pure reason until it is
drunk."
On Thursday, January 2, 2014 2:22 AM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hegel says: "To measure beer in pints is for the accursed British of the isles.
No true German would ever stoop to measuring the quantity of his beer, provided
that the quality is good."
(Alcohologica, part 2, chapter 3)
On Thursday, January 2, 2014 2:08 AM, "Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx" <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
In a message dated 12/31/2013 2:09:22 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Well, just as we can intelligibly say 'a bottle of vodka,' without
specifying the
quantity, so it seems to me that we can intelligibly say 'a box of
pizza' without specifying the quantity. A box of pizza being delivered is
not necessarily equivalent to what you get when you order 'a pizza' in a
restaurant. It may be that, ehem, there are 'deeper' philosophical
issues at
stake that escape me at present.
Similarly, Grice raises doubts as to the expression,
'cup of tea'
with or without the qualifying, 'nice cup of tea'.
Strictly, it should be, he notes, 'cup WITH tea'.
I follow his argument: 'of' is etymologically, 'off', even if the Brits
pronounce it 'ov'. A cup off tea would thus IMPLICATE (to use Grice's
parlance) something like what is implicated by 'a trip OFF shore'.
Wittgenstein ("Philosophical Grammar") speaks of a 'pint of beer' within
what he calls a 'form of life'/'language game' that provokes the same kind of
linguistic puzzles.
Cheers,
Speranza
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