[lit-ideas] Should I see Dylan?
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:46:42 EDT
In a message dated 6/17/2011 8:47:03 P.M. , ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Can't help you with the Dylan decision.
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My last post today.
Actually I _can_.
McEvoy's original question was:
"Should I see Dylan tomorrow or not?"
I was wondering about the 'or not'.
In symbols:
p v ~ p?
It strikes me that the answer is tautological, so I will help McEvoy with
it:
"Yes: you should see Dylan _or not_."
Speranza
---- Some people.
(*Grice, "do not be more informative than is required." "The proper
erotetic statement of a decision, is "Should I do x?" -- the addition, "or
not",
turns the thing into an overinformative tautology." As an illustration Grice
quoted from Ramsey quoted from Alice:
Alice: Is it a long song?
White knight: It is. But very beautiful. And sad. Either it will bring
tears to your eyes or...
Alice (after pause by White Knight): or else what?
White Knight: Or else it won't, of course.
Ramsey quoted this as an example of Carroll's faith on bivalence -- but
this cannot be with McEvoy.
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(** Note that: "Shouldn't I see Dylan?" sounds rude --)
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