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Thursday, May 29, 2025

ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL

 It has been said that Strawson typed Grice's essay on 'signification' -- originally a talk to The Oxford Philosophical Society -- because there was a need, Strawson felt, to have more of that type of Oxonian philosophy in print! 

A few years later, in his own essay, Strawson goes on to CRITICISE Grice's allegedly sufficient -- Strawson never bothered with necessary -- conditions for 'signification.'


However, when Grice lists those who helped him see the poit, Strawson comes second, not first!

Earlier, another pupil of Grice's had pointed out that, when playing bridge, but not poker, the type of simmulation that is NOT to be expected in a case of 'significatio' qua communicatio -- is usually the way to success!

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