Speranza what do you smoke in the morning?
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Getting to know this guy called Guy
Omar K. provides an alleged counterexample to Witters's criteria-based theory
of alleged knowledge, because O. K. says he knows about both G. R. Grice (the
author of "The Grounds of Moral Judgement") and H. P. Grice (the author of
"W.O.W." -- or Studies in the Way of Words) but fails to distinguish them.
Geary was wondering whether someone knew about a guy.
(I'd use the historical present: "is wondering if someone knows about a
guy.")
In a message dated 5/7/2015 5:14:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx writes:
But now I'm told that not only Grice, but Hume, as well, insist that I'm only
my own fantasy. Well, damn, if I'd known that I'd have imagined myself [...]"
Well, technically, Grice acknowledges Gallie ("Is the self a substance?",
Mind), and Broad. From Broad, Grice borrows The Pure Ego Theory, and what
Broad calls "The Proper Name Theory," "The Disguised Description Theory,"
and "The Logical Construction Theory."
Grice returns the Pure Ego Theory, the Proper Name Theory, the Disguised
Description Theory, but keeps "The Logical Construction Theory".
Put it bluntly, the self is a logical construction out of memory, to quote
from Linsky.
Technically, too, Grice may be seen as LOCKEAN, rather than Humean, although
Grice discusses Reid's paradox of personal identity. The logical construction
of personal identity in terms of mnemonic states is Lockean at heart.
Hume, who woke Kant up from his dogmatic slumber, is, in Kant's own phrase,
"another Animal" ('Tier' -- in the so-called "third critique", section 9).
Hume says that the "I" is a "je-ne-sais-quoi", i.e. an intangible quality that
makes something distinctive or attractive (as in "She has a certain
je-ne-sais-quoi about her"), but he does not realise that "je-ne-sais-quoi"
includes "je", which is French for "I".
Note that the French expression, "je-ne-sais-quoi" is what logicians call
'squatitive negation', while "je sais quoi" is squatitive affirmation.
Cheers,
Speranza
Grice, H. P. Personal identity.
Grice, H. P. The logical construction of personal identity
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