My Kind of Hero

* * * * * By J. L. Speranza, of The Grice Club

* * * * * * * for The Carnap Corner



From a review of Quine's autobiography, "The time of my life":


"Insofar as Quine ever had a hero it was Carnap."

-- which has the nice quality of a graffito to it.

I was reminded of Strawson's manifesto in his inaugural Oxford talk (Logico-Linguistic Papers repr.):

"A homeric struggle calls for ... heroes".

And trust he'll place his former tutor (once a tutor always a tutor), Grice as such. He fails to have Quine or Carnap, but he has Frege alright!

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