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I think of Dan O’Connor when I do my major weekly grocery shopping, and check out under a sign that begins like this:1
Blodgett’s Supermarket wants you to enjoy shopping here. In fact, we insist that you do…
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D.J. O’Connor, ‘Pragmatic Paradoxes’, Mind, Vol. 57, (1948) pp. 358–9.
See L.J. Cohen, ‘Mr O’Connor’s “Pragmatic Paradoxes”’, Mind, Vol. 59, (1950) pp. 85–7,
Peter Alexander, ‘Pragmatic Paradoxes’, Mind, Vol. 59, (1950) pp. 536–8
, and D.J. O’Connor, ‘Pragmatic Paradoxes and Fugitive Propositions’, Mind, Vol. 60, (1951) pp. 536–8.
W. V. Quine, ‘On a So-called Paradox’, Mind, Vol. 62, (1953) pp.65–7. Curiously, the paradox drives Quine to a serious consideration of possibility in the discussion.
See Brian Medlin, ‘An Unexpected Examination’, American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 1, (1964) pp. 66–72. The remark about Quine is on p. 66, where Medlin also says: ‘Several philosophers have discussed this problem in Mind. Of these, we must put Mr. Shaw first and the rest nowhere.’ One feels nostalgic for the kinder and gentler standards of debate of the preceding decade.
Stephen Stich, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science (Boston: MIT Press, 1983), p. 33.
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Ackermann, R. (1991). Super Pragmatic Paradoxes. In: Mahalingam, I., Carr, B. (eds) Logical Foundations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21232-3_1
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