Review of Paul Grice, Aspects of Reason
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Aspects of Reason offers a sketch of parts of an ambitious project to derive important philosophical consequences from the idea of a rational being, with hopes of improving on Aristotle and Kant. Jonathan Dancy offers a good account and critique of this project.1 In this review, I will mention and discuss some important things that Grice says along the way about what reasoning is, what reasons are, the relation between theoretical, or “alethic”, reasons and practical reasons, and the analysis of practical and alethic modality.
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