[lit-ideas] Re: PCA
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:46:38 EDT
From the OED
paradigm case n. a case or instance to be regarded as representative or
typical.
First quote:
1937 Antony O'HEAR & A. C. BENJAMIN
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, p. 38
"Indeed the solar-eclipse expedition and observations may be taken as a
paradigm case of an attempt at the severe testing of a theory."
[Grice loved Benjamin, author of "Remembering", Australian philosopher]
1962 The Listener 4 Oct. 516/1
(being the transcripts of the Third Programme, Auntie Beeb):
"Plato's morality is supported and underlined by his theory of Forms,
according to which mathematics is the paradigm case of knowledge."
---- against Gettier's sort of scepticism that will come up in 1963:
-- problem with the above is that it's 'supralunary'.
2001 Kenyon Rev. & Stand Spring 243
"The paradigm case of the scientific victim is Rosalind Franklin,
researcher in crystallography at Cambridge and London, who played a crucial
part in
the discovery of DNA."
----
Well, yes,
and the paradigm case of the ordinary language philosopher is
Grice/Strawson (1956) and Urmson -- cited by Grice in "Retrospective
Epilogue").
Cheers,
JLS
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