[lit-ideas] "One of the two most important living philosophers" (Is: Habermas)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 08:05:37 EDT
In a message dated 6/28/2004 7:17:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> > He is one of the two most important living philosophers.
Who is the other perchance? And how is this decided?
The other is ... Heidegger? I read from Grice, "Logic and Conversation":
"In the ordinary sense of the word, 'assertion' is
quite a specific speech-act. To assert is (approximately)
to make a claim. If I say, 'Heidegger is the greatest
living philosopher,' I have certainly made an
assertion (on the assumption, at least, that I can
expect you to take me seriously); but if I draw
your attention to the presence of a robin by
saying, 'There is a robin', or tell you that
'I have a headache', or comment that 'The weather
is cold for the time of year,' it is in the first two
cases false and in the third case doubtful whether,
properly speaking, I have made an assertion."
Grice, 'Logic and Conversation',
Studies in the Way of Words, 1989, p. 18
(argument against Searle on the nature of assertion). McEvoy may protest
that Heidegger was _dead_ by 1989, but that is neither here nor there: it was
not when Grice's claim was made, in 1967. Anyway, perhaps it's Apel, then?
Back to "p & p", "p & q", I wonder why the order of adjectives makes a
difference,
(1) He is one of the two most important living philosophers
(2) He is one of the two living most important philosophers
(3) He is one of the two, most important, living, philosophers
[as opposed to the most important dead]
Cheers,
JL
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