[lit-ideas] c Botany
- From: Adriano Palma <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:29:46 +0000
So this botanizing of yours brings no truth, frankly, why should anyone gives a
fuck?
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Linguistic Botany
My last post today!
In a message dated 4/2/2015 11:31:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes:
"Russell did not set out to advocate language change, but to make an
epistemological point. That point is that common usage cannot be trusted as an
arbiter of truth and knowledge. We don't need to correct the common usage that
'the Sun raises in the East' ... At fault are the philosophers who claim that,
because we usually say such or such, this must of necessity be the case.
arbiter of truth.
This philosopher I like makes the explicit point:
"No general characterisation of the Method of "Linguistic Botanizing"
carries with it any claim about the truth-value of any of the specimens which
might be subjected to Linguistic Botanizing".
He expands on this in one of his best unpublications, "Linguistic Botanizing".
Grice was interested in understanding Austin's view of Linguistic Botanizing.
Grice saw this an improvement of Oxonian dialectic over Athenian dialectic. For
Austin saw that Linguistic Botany allowed the philosopher to testify his
"wonder and appreciation with regard to the richness, subtlety, and ingenuity
of the instrument of language."
Cheers,
Speranza
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