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!
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The tribute to Carnap was only in the naming of System C, its creation is an exercise in analytic method which goes to the heart of the "eternal city" as I conceive it.
ReplyDeleteI will post on this.
Good. I know. But it is still very refreshing. Imagine if for all philosophers that existed they would have faithful and loyal students like you and me, calling things after them.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there were systems named after people before Grice had the occurrence of calling his system Q after Quine.