[lit-ideas] Simplicature
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:49:41 EDT
In a message dated 4/18/2009 7:22:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
rpaul@xxxxxxxx writes:
'This is so because A said it, and he's an
authority,' is a bad argument. 'A is an authority (on loons), and he
said it, so it's likely true,' is not so bad.
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Hear, Hear.
Anyway, here what the OED says on 'simple'.
DIALOGUE:
MCEVOY. Regardless of what Wittgenstein thought about
this (or that), it is impossible to be simple in philosophy.
MCCREERY. What d'you mean?
MCEVOY. No such 'simple'. No body is a simpleton.
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OED
L. simplus (in classical Latin only found once in the neuter, 'simplum') =
Gr. haploos, the first element in both being hypothetical form "*sem-",
meaning, ‘one’. In "simplex" the second element is related to L. plicare,
Gr. plekein ‘to fold’: cf. AFALD a.]
J L Speranza
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