In a message dated 10/28/2015 3:46:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
To get to the other side.
Indeed, The Spanish inquisition was called inquisition, as McEvoy puts it,
"to get to the other side". An inquisition requires two sides:
The inquisitor and the inquisitee.
A typical inquisition conversation proceeds mainly along Griceian lines,
even if it does not finish along them!
The conversational maxims are in operation, "try to make your contribution
one that is true", "do not say what you believe to be false".
One problem was the devil. Since, the inquisitee, it was claimed, was
possessed by the devil, for any Wittgensteinian proposition "p", the underlying
logical form might well be taken by the inquisitor to be "~p", i.e. its
negation. Typical:
A: p?
B: p.
A: That's not true!
B: I'm not!
These was ages after Epemenides's paradox, but still valid.
When the Queen of Spain abolished the inquisition, there were still open
questions. Years later, J. L. Borges wrote, "Other inquisitions" to prove
THAT point.
For a full Griceian implicatural analysis of inquisitional conversation,
vide:
Vose, Robin. “Introduction to inquisition trial transcripts and records.”
Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame, Department of Rare Books and Special
Collections. University of Notre Dame, 2010.
<http://www.library.nd.edu/rarebooks/digital_projects/inquisition/collections/RBSC-INQ:COLLECTION/essays/RBSC-I
NQ:ESSAY_TrialsAndSentencing>
Cheers,
Speranza
* Vose lists:
INQ 117. Processo (brief trial notes) of Ana, Indian, for bigamy;
Mexico[?], 1538.
INQ 2. Completion of sentence for Alonso Carranza, weaver; Toledo, 1540.
INQ 204. Form for confiscation and sale of property; Granada[?], 1567.
INQ 6. Certificate listing punishments for an excommunicated woman; Toledo,
1574.
INQ 118. Relacion de meritos of Ana Mendez, Portuguese, for judaizing;
Cuenca 1596.
INQ 119. Trial of Gaspar de los Reyes, Portuguese, and his companion
Catelina de Parraga, mestiza, for iconoclasm; Mexico, 1620-1622.
INQ 13. Copy of testimony given in 1638 by Luis Sánchez García, concerning
a case dating to 1525; Madrid, 1640.
INQ 135. Faria de Sousa, Manuel de. Informacion en favor de Manuel de Faria
i Sousa, Cavallero de la Orden de Christo, i de la Casa Real. Sobre la
Acusacion que se hizo en el Tribunal del Santo Oficio de Lisboa, a los
comentarios que docta, i judiciosa, i catolicamente escrivio a Las Lusiades …
de
Luis de Camoens; [1640].
INQ 14. Collection of legal documents relating to confiscation and sale of
property; Talavera[?], 1651-1859.
INQ 586. Trial involving demonic possession of a woman; Rome[?], 1634-1661.
INQ 63. Collection of texts on cases heard at Llerena ca. 1608-1697.
INQ 1. Sealed notice of death sentence; no date or place given [1600s?].
INQ 8. Notes on orthodoxy of writings by Lucas Waddingus and Marco Antonio
Alós y Orraca; no date or place given [Rome, 1600s?]
INQ 550. Woodcut image of inquisitorial interrogation, cut from a book; no
date or place given [French, 1600s?].
INQ 121. Trial of Joseph Lopez, Franciscan, for an inappropriate sermon;
Mexico, 1766-1767.
INQ 122. Jurisdictional essay and collected documents relating to trial of
Juan Rodríguez Bejarano, disabled soldier, for bigamy; Madrid, 1771.
INQ 123. Trial in absentia of “San Juana” and her daughter Viviana, for
witchcraft; Mexico, 1774-1776.
INQ 124. Denunciation of Josef Zisneros, Franciscan, for inappropriate
behavior at mass, etc.; Valladolid, 1796.
INQ 125. Trial of Atanacio de la Cruz, Indian, for making a pact with the
devil; Mexico 1799.
INQ 395. Public summary of suspended case against Isabel Herraiz,
alumbrada, with instructions for her followers to cease their activities and
turn
in all writings on the subject; Cuenca, 1804.
INQ 402. Public notice of sentence against priest and rebel leader Miguel
Hidalgo y Costilla; Mexico, 1810.
INQ 199. Martinez Marina, Francisco. Defensa del Doctor Don Francisco
Martinez Marina contra las censuras dadas por el Tribunal de la Inquisicion á
sus dos obras…; Madrid, 1861 [first published 1818].
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