In a message dated 2/27/2011 3:12:10 P.M., palma@xxxxxxxx writes: Mister Speranza makes very many unclear claims, Dr. Bealer with whom I was in a seminar (at Indiana university) specifically denied any influence from Grice. ---- You should spend some time at Josh Dever's family tree. He has a pdf file and an e-mail you can contact. He has spent some time tracing biological 'trees': Socrates was the father of Plato, and Plato was the father of Aristotle (in Dever's jargon). Socrates, however, as an 'orphan'. He has, I think, Bealer as a son of Grice (at Berkeley as R. Paul reminds us). There's no WAY you can deny the influence of your rather. It is in your _blood_. Cheers. Speranza