[lit-ideas] Re: The Mumps
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:20:56 EST
In a message dated 12/21/2010 8:28:25 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
it is counterfactually false, if Edward had not abdicated and outlived
her.
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Thanks. I thought you would stick on my typo, "Elizabeth III", hence I run
to correct myself. Let me check her utterance, by the way:
_http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=71698_
(http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=71698)
INTERVIEWER: Because I'm not in England, I don't really see it as much. My
only experiences with the Queen is when I'm in Leicester Square and I see
all these people gathered there to see her car go by.
BONHAM CARTER: Well, she's very present at Christmas, because she has to do
her broadcast, and we're pretty conscious of her, but it's mostly at royal
occasions and things. I have a lot of time for the Queen, and I think
she's a very natural person when you meet her, who does her job very well. And
ironically, I think she would have been Queen anyway, because Edward VIII
would never have had children because he had mumps.
Formalisation:
"Ironically" -- as per "tragic irony"?
--- cfr. Grice's use of 'ironically'. "You can't say, "Ironically, that car
has all its windows intact" meaning that one is not".
---- "I THINK" -- rather than "I KNOW"
"she" "Elizabeth II"
"would STILL have been Queen"
emphatic: "ANYWAY" -- or 'anyways' as Geary prefers, to emphatise the
ambiguity of historical paths.
"because"
------ Not a Hempel-Reichenbach 'causal' because but what Grice calls
'intentional 'because'" ("I vomited because to offend her")
"Edward VIII" -- the traitor, to many.
"would never have had children" -- never mind Wallis Simpson. Oddly, the
interviewer spells her name as "Wallace Simpson".
"because" -- in this case it IS the "Hempel-Reichenbach" 'genetic' causal
functor. "The rabbit is white because his mother and father were white, too"
(Mendel's law), in a 'dominant' sort of 'white'.
"he had mumps".
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Etc.
Cheers
Speranza
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