[lit-ideas] Re: Seamus Heaney dies
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:36:16 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 8/30/2013 7:28:32 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Seamus Heaney dies
and, may I add, before that, he had been born.
One interesting topic for discussion is ascription, self-ascription, and
should we say, other-ascription.
From wiki:
"Heaney was named one of "Britain's top 300 intellectuals" by The Observer
in 2011, though the newspaper later published a correction acknowledging
that "several individuals who would not claim to be British" had been
featured, of which Heaney was one."
To consider:
truth-conditional 'force' of:
i. Seamus Heaney is British.
ii. Seamus Heany is not British.
iii. Seamus Heany claims not to be British -- ('implicature': +> but he is)
iv. [The Observer] Seamus Heany "would not claim to be British"
(implicature: 'but he should')
v. other.
It's different with Geary not claiming to be non Memphian.
Or not
Cheers,
Speranza
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