The question asked is was flew circumcised? Was that approved by Austin? Which
Austin? The car? The legislator? The soi disant philosopher? All three of them?
And if not why not?
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My last post today!
In a message dated 4/5/2015 8:19:18 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes:
The expression 'free will' (liberum arbitrium) comes from Christian theology,
not from common usage.
I will try to quote, for historical interest, what Grice says about the
'argument from paradigm cases', and why Austin might have disliked it, even if
what Grice refers to as Austin's 'junior colleagues at Oxford', namely, Urmson,
Flew, and why not, Grice in "In defense of a dogma", did not.
This is what Grice says:
"It is in any case my firm belief that Austin would not have been sympathetic
towards the attempts ...
to attribute to the deliverances of common sense ...
any guaranteed immunity from error. I think, moreover, that Austin would have
been RIGHT in WITHHOLDING his support at this point, and we may notice that HAD
he WITHHELD SUPPORT, Austin WOULD HAVE BEEN AT VARIANCE with some of his own
junior colleagues at Oxford, particularly with philosophers like Urmson, who at
least at one time, showed a disposition, which AS FAR AS I KNOW AUSTIN NEVER
DID, to rely on so-called Arguments from Paradigm Cases. I THINK Austin might
have thought, RIGHTLY, that those who espoused such arguments were ATTEMPTING
TO REPLACE by a DOGMATIC thesis something which they already had, which was,
furthermore, ADEQUATE to all LEGITIMATE philosophical needs."
Grice discusses this in connection with Austin's adoption of LINGUISTIC
BOTANIZING, so there IS a cross-reference!
Cheers,
Speranza
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