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donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes that he "prefer[s]", when it comes to
Griceian
implicatural analysis, "the Spanish Inquisition."
As for the title, 'inquisition' comes to 'inquire' and this has obvious
connections, as H. L. A. Hart would know, with English law (he brought
philosophical conceptual analysis to the elucidation of the sometimes sombre
area
of English law):
For in order to defend themselves, the inquisitee had two possibilities:
(a) to find favourable witnesses, which is obviously akin, conceptually,
to so-called "substantive" evidence/testimony in English law
or
(b) to demonstrate that the witnesses of accusers were not trustworthy,
obviously akin, conceptually, to English law "impeachment" evidence/testimony.
But there was no Inquisition in England, unless broadly understood:
A) When the Catholics were in power -- vide the film "Lady Jane" with
Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Elwes. She ("Lady Jane" not Helena who is merely
acting) underwent some sort of inquisition.
B) In contexts other than religious trials where substantive testimony and
impeachment testimony are applied.
C) My favourite case has been recently studied by the brother of Princess
Diana. When those who revolted against the king of England (or UK, I
forget), they were inquired, and later found guilty.
As one reads at:
http://www.nhregister.com/arts-and-entertainment/20150227/princess-dianas-br
other-historian-charles-spencer-pens-grisly-killers-of-the-king
"Several men met their end in gory spectacle in mid-1600s England. They
were hanged until unconsciousness, revived, had their genitals cut off, were
disemboweled with a red-hot gouger and their innards roasted in front of
them. They were conscious until they bled out or their vital organs were
yanked out and held high for an excited crowd."
"It was a pretty unpleasant half an hour ... it could go on that long,"
Spencer said.
"But there’s more: An executed man was then "quartered" by the state’s
hooded executioner — cut into four pieces — and his head stuck on a pole."
Of course, this was for Spencer not just half as bad as what "the French
did" across the pond:
"We managed," he says, "to sort out what worked for us as a monarchy. And
it was a reduced one that gave continuity, tradition, a sense of history but
didn’t interfere too much in basic rights. This was NOT something done in
the rest of Europe. So when you had the French revolution, it was an
absolute chaotic bloodbath for the monarchy."
-- "with neither 'substantive' nor 'impeachment' testimony," as one
surviving friend of Queen Marie Antoinette later complained. "And she was a
good
Catholic, too."
Cheers,
Speranz
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