The Carnap Idiom, The Grice Idiom -- Look For A Neutral One

--- by JLS, of the Grice Club

---- WON'T SAY a 'common one', because a common idiom may not ring the right sort of bell.

But when discussing what Grice calls the 'longitudinal unity of philosophy', Grice notes that one obstacle in its perception is the dating of 'idioms'. Some idioms date: they become old-fashioned. New ones are fangled, and so on ad infinitum.

---

The idea occurred to me, after the heroic attempts by Jones in "Grice Club" to turn to some Carnapian 'common' lingua franca the latest Gricean novelties.

Jones proposed:

----- for 'meaning', qua noun. As when we say, "The meaning of this". What is this? What is 'meaning' for Carnap? What was meaning for Grice?

When it comes to Carnap one has to give a lot of credit to his mother tongue. Or something.