Grice was often infuriated by the overimportance Americans gave to Tarski, a Polish 'minor' logician.
After all, like Strawson, Tarski's theory fails to provide an analysis of what Grice calls 'factual satisfactoriness' in embedded contexts:
Suppose our honest policeman, the best -- 'honesty is the best policy': says:
snow is green
grass is white
-- inverting Tarski's disquotational quotes.
It turns out that Tarski was _wrong_ or only _pretending_ he was?
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