Monday 1 March 2010

Grice Refines Carnap's Ramsey Sentences (?)

------------ By J. L. Speranza, of the Grice Club
---------------------- For the Carnap Corner:

Grice distinguishes two types of Ramsifications:


Method In Philosophical Psychology (From the Banal to the Bizarre) *by P Grice - 1974
be to adopt the first alternative (that of Ramsified naming) and to ..... sible solution of the Selection problem (D). Only those laws which ...
www.jstor.org/stable/3129859

3 comments:

  1. Method In Philosophical Psychology (From the Banal to the Bizarre) *by P Grice

    First, what I shall call the way of Ramsified naming: "There is just ... be to adopt the first alternative (that of Ramsified naming) and to ...
    www.jstor.org/stable/3129859

    --- the full "Method" is available in google.books "Conception of Value"

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  2. Grice distinguishes two ways:

    -- the way of Ramsified naming

    and

    -- the way of Ramsified definition.

    This is BOUND to have some say in the Carnap/Grice say!

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    From:


    Method In Philosophical Psychology (From the Banal to the Bizarre) *by P Grice - 1975

    "First, what I shall call the way of Ramsified naming: "There is just ... the way of Ramsified definition, can dispense with the uniqueness ..."
    www.jstor.org/stable/3129859

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  3. The distinction between

    'the way of Ramsified naming'

    and

    'the way of Ramsified definition'

    is that, as Grice says in


    Method In Philosophical Psychology (From the Banal to the Bizarre) 1975,

    "the way of Ramsified definition, can dispense with the uniqueness claim. It will run: "(a) x judges just in case there is a J and there ...
    www.jstor.org/stable/3129859

    He goes on to apply this to the 'selection problem' which bears on Carnap (Carnap's insight about the triviality unless the thing incorporates a conditional. What Grice calls anti-chauvinism).

    In doing so, Grice opts for 'the way of Ramsified naming' but "merely for expository reasons" -- noting that the 'adoption of the way of Ramsified definition' should be enough of a piece of cake.

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