In a message dated 3/15/2016 9:39:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Philosophers, it seems to me, are generally a hard-headed sort, seldom
given to admitting error.
Well, not Moore -- G. E. Moore, that is. His claim to infame is:
i. It is raining, but I don't believe it.
-- an admission of error, I take it. But Putnam himself is credited with
always being critical about his own theories.
Putnam was famous, too, for forever changing his mind. Constantly critical
of his own theories, he refudiated functionalism that he had earlier
endorsed, and went through a gamut of views on metaphysics, as he did in his
personal life on politics.
Grice was a different animal. At a conference, Neil Wilson approached him
with a criticism:
"Mr. Grice: you seem to confuse perlocutionary effects with illocutionary
intentions."
""Confuse?," was Grice's surprised response. "Nonsense: I may well be
MISTAKEN, but never confused."
His implicature is that he knew very well what Austin meant by the
perlcutionary-effect/illocutionary-intention distinction, and that, by
identifying
these two he might be mistaken (to Wilson -- not to himself, obviously)
but not ONE bit confused. Ah, how griceful he was!
Cheers,
Speranza
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