Some time ago I mentioned on this FORUM the work of Facione. Only today, I
received this note offlist:
"Subject: Oneself as authority". "Dear JL, Some time ago you wrote, "Peter
Facione has studied pre-Gricean thought in American philosophy". So I tried
"Facione Grice" on Google, and the only good hit I got was a post to the
Relevance archives by one JL Speranza. This reminds me of something you
might be able to help
me with. Years ago I heard a funny story about Thomas Hardy, but I don't
remember the details. In conversation Hardy once used a common word in a
very peculiar way - as I recall, it was a verbalised
noun, something like 'The train longs through the valley.' When challenged,
Hardy insisted, sure this
usage is OK, let's look in the OED. And the relevant example turned out to
be a quotation from - Thomas
Hardy! I think this is a good story but it doesn't work very well if you
don't remember the exact word. Does it ring a bell for you?"
I replied offlist that the only quotes about Hardy I seem to treasure are
"Kiss me, Hardy", uttered by Horatio Nelson (disambiguating it as _not_
Thomas) and Hardy's last will ("Be my heart forever in Dorset" and the way
_this_ was semantically narrowed down by British government, who took the
heart away from Hardy's corpse before taking it (the corpse) to
Westminster's Abbey). As for Facione, and for the record, the "American
philosophy" I meant was East Lansing philosopher H. S. Leonard. The
relevant analysis -- cited by Facione -- being:
By uttering x, Utterer U means Goal G iff
there is some addressee A such that U brings
about x intending that
1. U's bringing about x could be
read by A as a sign of G and
2. A think, by virtue of U's bringing
x about, that U intends (1).
In 'Interrogatives, truth, falsity & lies', and 'Authorship & purpose'
(both in _Philosophy of Science_, vol. 26) -- The Facione references being:
'The logic of intending & believing' (Notre Dame Journal Formal Logic 16),
'Meaning & intending' (American Philos. Quart. 10), 'Meaning &
communication (N. Scholasticism 49), 'The problem of defining utterer's
meaning' & 'Counterexamples & where they lead' (Southwestern JPhilosophy 3).
Best,
J L Speranza, Esq
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