Paul Grice ; with an introduction by Richard Warner.
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New York :
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Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (xxxviii, 136 pages) :
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illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: Grice on Reasons and Rationality / Richard Warner -- Aspects of reason -- Proem -- I. Reason and Reasoning -- II. Reason and Reasons -- III. Practical and Alethic Reasons: Part I -- IV. Practical and Alethic Reasons: Part II -- V. Some Reflections about Ends and Happiness -- Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Grice contends that practical necessities are established by derivation. This text allows a defence of the treatment of necessity, also revealing how the construction of derivations can help to explain, as well as justify, thought and action.