RT list: "A. P. Grice"

What's in a name?

Now, this _should_ be a good joke.

Horn cites, rightly, on p. 12 of the inaugural essay in the inaugural
journal (I. J. P.) that

Chomsky

is to be credited with "one of the earliest applications of Gricean
reasoning [in the linguistic literature]". But hey, he is teaching Philosophy
_and_ Linguistics! (Did he attend the WJ-40? What row was he seated in?) In
any case, it always struck me that an EarliER application is his grandiose
sounding Aspects of THE theory of Syntax (cfr. Strawson [Not "An"]
Introduction to Logical Theory").

In the index to the Standard Model, Grice goes by the the first- and
second- name abbreviations of "A. P.". Can't MIT correct that in further
printings?

I'm please the forthcoming "Meaning and Analysis" is going to go credited
to "H. Paul Grice", a good compromise between the ever-Brit who would go by
"H. P. Grice" (unless seen dead) and the new 'American' custom he was
_forced_ to attain, in, of all places, America! -- he started to go, shyly, by
"H. Paul Grice" to end up gloriously as "Paul Grice" _simpliciter_ -- but
the (c) to Harvard UP indeed goes the complete baptismal registry:
"_Herbert_ Paul Grice", after good old_er_ Herbert (his dad) without which no
pragmatics, but only footnotes to it* (* Whitehead said, "Metaphysics has been
but a long footnote to Plato" -- mutatis mutandis, Grice and pragmatics).

Good night!

J. L. Speranza
 
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Received on Thu Jul 2 22:24:24 2009