Semanticists, which Grice on the whole underestimated, speak or spoke of
Compositionality.
The main example, by Tarski's disciple, R. Sherman, is:
"x is supercalifriagilisticexpialidocious"
is true iff
x is upercalifriagilisticexpialidocious.
Which Grice finds _otiose_: "x is an unbound variable, and until the domain is narrowed down, how are we suppose to grasp the utterer's intention in the alleged adage?"
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