Glad to know that Jones, as he notes in his "Carnap Corner" blog found online some excellent pdf essay on Carnap, which cross-references with Belnap's "Carnap's lamp" essay, which he also refers to in a different post.
I had read Belnap's essay and have found it of great interest and was impressed by the technicality of the previous essay that Jones referred to, that compares Carnap with computer programming.
I am glad Jones will compare the 'flatness' of Belnap with the 'shallowness' of his own approach to stuff including Grice's 'Vacuous Names'. Etc.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Grice on Vacuous Names and X-Methods
By Roger Bishop Jones for The City of Eternal Truth
What is the point of my paper Grice on Vacuous Names, and how does it bear upon "The City of Eternal Truth".
Well, the key to Eternal Truth, rather than the usual philosophical speculative froth, is in analytic method.
The way we approach The City is through a dialogue between Carnap* and Grice*, in which by a constructive comparative analysis the philosophies of the two men evolve toward an effective analytic method.
This paper is one element of this process.
After an initial flurry in constructing the formal model (called System C) which one might think of as a hybrid between a formal model of and a dialectical response to system Q, I will use this as an example for the description and discussion of analytic methods. I decided to use the term "X-Methods" as a label for the position I am now developing on a pluralistic analytic method (this is the kind of thing which Carnap* might have come up with).
The exposition will be split across two chapters of a multi-volume work of formal philosophy (at present called "analyses of analysis") of which the material on Grice's system Q will form a chapter.
An earlier chapter in the work is intended to provide a discussion of the methods employed in the book, and I hope to progress that chapter and make clear in "Grice on Vacuous Names" how that chapter exemplifies the methods.
These methods are Carnap*'s approach to Eternal Truth.
Roger Jones
What is the point of my paper Grice on Vacuous Names, and how does it bear upon "The City of Eternal Truth".
Well, the key to Eternal Truth, rather than the usual philosophical speculative froth, is in analytic method.
The way we approach The City is through a dialogue between Carnap* and Grice*, in which by a constructive comparative analysis the philosophies of the two men evolve toward an effective analytic method.
This paper is one element of this process.
After an initial flurry in constructing the formal model (called System C) which one might think of as a hybrid between a formal model of and a dialectical response to system Q, I will use this as an example for the description and discussion of analytic methods. I decided to use the term "X-Methods" as a label for the position I am now developing on a pluralistic analytic method (this is the kind of thing which Carnap* might have come up with).
The exposition will be split across two chapters of a multi-volume work of formal philosophy (at present called "analyses of analysis") of which the material on Grice's system Q will form a chapter.
An earlier chapter in the work is intended to provide a discussion of the methods employed in the book, and I hope to progress that chapter and make clear in "Grice on Vacuous Names" how that chapter exemplifies the methods.
These methods are Carnap*'s approach to Eternal Truth.
Roger Jones
Fascinated that Jones created system C!
by J. L. Speranza, of the Grice Club.
I am fascinated that R. B. Jones cared to create "System C" at:
rbjones.com/rbjpub/pp/doc/t037.pdf
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Little summary of how this fits with the "City of Eternal Truth". Maria R., in her entry, "non-existent objects", for the Stanford, mentions "The Golden Mountain" as a non-existent object. She does NOT mention, "The City of Eternal Truth" as a similarly non-existent thing, so there's hope for us!
In any case, as Jones notes, he created "System C" as a tribute to Carnap. And as he notes this is echoing Grice who coined his System Q in tribute to Quine and, perhaps more importantly, to Myro who 'coined' his system -- System G -- as a tribute to Grice. I have elsewhere (S/H, etc.) referred to the thing as System GHP.
So we have a few systems here! That's good!
I am fascinated that R. B. Jones cared to create "System C" at:
rbjones.com/rbjpub/pp/doc/t037.pdf
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Little summary of how this fits with the "City of Eternal Truth". Maria R., in her entry, "non-existent objects", for the Stanford, mentions "The Golden Mountain" as a non-existent object. She does NOT mention, "The City of Eternal Truth" as a similarly non-existent thing, so there's hope for us!
In any case, as Jones notes, he created "System C" as a tribute to Carnap. And as he notes this is echoing Grice who coined his System Q in tribute to Quine and, perhaps more importantly, to Myro who 'coined' his system -- System G -- as a tribute to Grice. I have elsewhere (S/H, etc.) referred to the thing as System GHP.
So we have a few systems here! That's good!
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