RT list: Grice's "be relevant" -- and Nowell-Smith

From Nowell-Smith's obituary in the Independent:
 
"Patrick became professor of philosophy at Leicester University in 1957,
accepting the invitation, he said, because he felt overwhelmed by the
presence at Oxford of JL Austin, Paul Grice and Peter Strawson (later Sir Peter,
obituary, February 15), all of whom were "much cleverer" than he was. None
the less, he believed that his reply to Austin's criticisms in the latter's
celebrated 1956 paper, Ifs and Cans, was a complete answer to them. It was
typical that Patrick published it in 1960 in what he termed an obscure
Scandinavian journal, where nobody read it, and did so because they asked to
publish it."
 
Comments:
 
-- (*) Of course he wasn't! (Re: all of whom were "much cleverer" than
he was)
 
-- I agree about the obscure if not the Scandinavian. I treasure a
checklist of Nowell-Smith's publications featuring things on speech acts which
_are_ pretty hard to trace.
 
"One summer's day, when Patrick was eight or nine, he went for a walk with
 
his mother. They decided to take note of how many different species of
wild
flowers they saw and counted to more than 100. He belonged to a different
age and a different world"
 
from the Italian world -- as when D. H. Lawrence asked an Italian peasant,
"What is that?" (in Italian) and got the reply, "It's a flower", which we
assume Lawrence knew, what _type_ being the relevant item he lacked.

Cheers,
 
J. L. Speranza
 
Refs.
 
Nowell-Smith, "Contextual implication". Aristotelian Society.
Grice, H. P. Kindly reminiscing Nowell-Smith's interactions at the
Kindergarten, in Grice, PGRICE.
Rossi, PhD. University of Florence -- on Grice and Nowell-Smith.
 

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"kindergartens": another term for Grice's "the class for all those whose  
classes have no members" -- the Play Group, as per the sobriquet in D. F.  
Pears's obit -- in The Independent.