[lit-ideas] Popperly Impopper
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:35:24 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 10/23/2013 2:17:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx writes:
>"[Popper] is capable of combining high moral seriousness with impopper
humour...
This is what we may refer, jocularly, as "popperly impopper". Note that
"impopperly popper" quite does not ring the same bell.
Oddly, Grice once spent a whole semester, talking of 'popper', in trying to
elucidate the distinction between 'proper' and 'correct'.
He noted that while one can play cricket incorrectly, it would not make
sense to say that one plays cricket improperly.
Cheers,
Speranza
Grice (adapted):
"As far as I know" [implicature: how far is that?] the ruthless and
unswerving associations of philosophy
with the study of ordinary [vs. EXTRAordinary -- as Cicero uses the
expression] language was peculiar
to the Oxford scene, and has never been seen ANYWHERE BEFORE OR SINCE. A
classic miniature of
this kind of procedure common at the Play Group was [Grice's colleague, J.
L.] Austin's request to [later Vic-Chancelor at Oxford] Warnock to tell
him the difference between playing [cricket] correctly and playing [cricket]
properly" (implicature: if any).
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