Sunday 28 February 2010

"More Carnapian than Austinian"

--- by J. L. Speranza, of the Grice Circle
----------- For the Carnap Corner

-- An online source -- I'm retrieving some crossreferences Austin/Carnap, and find this one from

REFRAINING (1979), by R. E. Moore

where a reference is made to Myles Barnd (1971)

Brand "describes his project there as "more Carnapian
than Austinian". (p. 45), so most probably he never
intended that (D5) capture our ordinary ...


www.springerlink.com/index/X23Q0505H020W550.pdf

--- So one could visualise something like

On many occasions -- R. B. Jones is a specialist in J. L. Austin, so he knows --, Grice would feel the burden of the Austinian Code a heavy one.

Grice had more of a theoretical spirit than Austin ever _tried_. Grice looked for generalities, abstractions, regularities beyond 'statistics'.

It would not be unreasonable to see Grice's choosing and sticking so ardently with Carnap's 'pirots' as Grice's feeling "more Carnapian than Austinian" in more than one respect!

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