[JLSblogs] [The Grice Club] Grice and Analyticity

[rbj at rbjones.com (Roger Bishop Jones)]

By Roger Bishop Jones for The Grice Club
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Here's a question for the scholars.
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I understand that Grice responded to Quine's "Two Dogmas"
(with Strawson of course) because (or partly because?) he
saw it as an attack on ordinary language philosophy.
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It is obvious that it is an attack on Logical Positiivism
and Carnap, but not so obvious to me that ordinary language
philosophy should feel under assault.
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Can anyone clarify for me, why Grice thought it so, or if
not, then did he have any other particular reason for
defending the distinction?
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Of course the obvious "reason" is that there is nothing
wrong with it and hence something wrong with Quine's
critique, and the Grice/Strawson critique is certainly well
worth publishing without need of any particular reason. But
I am interested in particular reasons if they are known,
since they might cast some light on how our conversation
between Carnap and Grice might proceed.
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RBJ

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