Ramsey: Shared Love of Carnap and Grice

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


--- THIS LINK BELOW provides a good full page of Carnap on well-known topic of the 'correspondence rule'

O <----> T

observation theory


-- This has at least two offsprings of importance in the Carnap/Grice debate:

-------(a) Phenomenalism, (which both Carnap and Grice reject) as wanting to see 'material' object as a 'theoretical' concept.

------- (b) Functionalism (a bete noire for Grice), as applied to psychology. In this second context, input and output (perceptual input and sensory output) are O-terms (in a Turing machine set) and the psychological predicate is the T-term.

Grice relies on Ramsification. In the link below we see Carnap at his best: exposing views and 'explicating' as was his wont and favourite term, which are so abtract they hurt! What a genius. Surely the same type of temperament that Grice was seen to display, in his more relaxed modes!

JLS

The Oxford handbook of philosophy of biology - Google Books
Michael Ruse - 2008 - Science
... pluralism is theoretically monistic, but operationally pluralistic. ... Rudolf Carnap explains: Our theoretical laws deal exclusively with the behavior ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0195182057...