Case IIIb: "He is just an evangelist"

--- Grice glosses (WoW: 361) as nothing to do with the 'gospell' or the 'good news' (eu-aggelion).

But rather as a conversational move to put forward the U's idea that

"He is a

a. sanctimonious
b. hypocritical
c. racist
d. reactionary

money grubber."

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Along with "High Ho" to mean "Well, that's the way the world goes", Grice seems to display some ignorance of what 'evangelist' may mean: i.e. the ignorance in those who USE it. For surely;

the 'just' is just if we are abbreviating:

'sanctimonious, hypocritical, racist, reactionary money-grubber' by such a good term of newish Greek pedigree.

"It might be claimed", here and there, "that what U meant
was in factd that his words said."

--- THIS IS EXACTLY DAVIDSON's point about metaphor
that that most unGricean of scholars, G. N. Lakoff,
found so irritating!

--- The point of a metaphor is to SAY what you MEAN!

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Grice goes on:

"In which case, his words would be dictive
but their dictive content woud be NONFORMAL,"

and less interestingly, "not part of the
conventional meaning of the words
used."

I.e. a clear case (or 'cases' -- to include the perhaps more charming "High Ho") of 'dictiveness without formality'.