[lit-ideas] Re: Philosophers and Programming Languages
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:36:11 EDT
--- Well, I lost interest that Grice is not listed.
His usual example is:
"Heidegger is right. Things are familiar to us (and thus comtemptible)
when we find an use for them. A typewriter however, is of no use to me, since
I do not type."
But I do understand all the philosophers he selects (the blogger) so should
get a clearer picture of what he means; a reply to the blog (titled "o now
then") points to the superficiality of it all. I do have witnessed too
close of an interaction in philosophy seminars with the computer types, which
I on the whole minimise. It's like with 'computer literacy': stuff and
nonsense. Witness Grice could not even _type_ let alone word-process. He was
annoyed that his spellchecker would correct his 'pirot' (a term used by
Carnap) or ignore, 'sticky wicket'.
Yet, he was a master of formal language alla first-order predicate calculus
with identity. If that's not a programming language, full with axioms, I
don't know what is.
Myro developed Grice's System. Myro calls it "System G" (Sally Haslanger
let me have all the unpublished papers by Myro on this). I retyped Myro's
System as "System HP-G": "a highly plausible/hopefully powerful version of
System G".
It's like the TLP. Donal thinks he is being deep when he says it's a 'tract
of logical and philosophical nature". Good guess. And "Amalia" is a novel.
Usually titles indicate what the book is about. But there are exceptions,
as Geary's current novel. (But don't disturb him, he is working).
Cheers,
JL
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