Re: [SPAM] RT list: Ordinary Language Philosophy

Dear David,

Grice's objective was indeed to argue against Ordinary Language
Philosophy. By showing, for example, that the various non-truth
conditional meanings of 'and' could be deduced from the logical
connective AND and some general principles of conversation (that were
in turn rooted in principles of general rationality), he argued that
its a fallacy to take the context-dependence of natural language
expressions as evidence for the position that natural language terms
are not logical and that the meaning of natural language terms is
radically different from logical expressions.

--Christoph

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:36:59AM -0600, David J Weber wrote:
> Friends,
>
> The topic of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time last week was
> Ordinary Language Philosophy. You could listen to it at:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl
>
> I was surprised to learn how early on the dependence of
> meaning on context was recognized, that Frege articulated it
> and that it can be traced from Frege through Wittgenstein and
> Austin.
>
> I was also surprised that there was no mention of Grice nor of
> Relevance Theory, and I'm wondering why that might be. Did
> Grice distance himself from Ordinary Language Philosophy?
>
> --David
>

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