Called for, Miscalled for, Uncalled for (a spade a spade)

Grice, WoW:364:

"What is being sought and legitimately
fixed by fiat"

is NOT the conventional meaning

of this or that expression,

eg. French for 'spade'

"but a solid guarantee," Grice puts it,

"that, in ceratin conditions, in calling
something [e.g. a spade, or a pig] a
so-and-so [i.e. a pig, or a spade], one
[i.e. Grice] would NOT be miscalling
it [the spade, or the pig] a so-and-so."

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Geary once asked his daughter.

"Why are pigs called pigs?"

Her answer: "Because they are pigs."