[lit-ideas] Re: The Philosophy of Bachelor
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 21:12:41 -0400 (EDT)
G/S, "In Defense of a dogma", contra Quine:
"[The denial of this] involves saying, for example,
that anyone who SERIOUSLY remarks that
"bachelor" means the same as "unmarried man"
but that "creature with kidneys" does not mean
the same as "creature with a heart" -- supposing
the last two expressions to be coextensional --
EITHER is not in fact drawing attention to any
distinction at all between the relations between
the members of each pair of expressions OR
is making a philosophical MISTAKE about
the nature of the distinction between them. In
any case, what he says, taken as he intends
it to be taken, is senseless or absurd."
---- repr. in Grice, "Studies in the Way of Words".
So, as per Grice, 1956, it's "unmarried man", not male.
Cheers,
Speranza
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