Grice on shaggy (five-step semi-inferential sequence) après WoW:364

---- Since Grice (WoW: 364) is careful to use 'feature' (which he distinguishes in WoW:vi from 'item') it's best to state his semi-inferential sequence thus (his shaggy-dog story):

STEP 1:

It is, speaking extensionally, general practice (merely) -- which can be with myself --, to treat 'shaggy' as signifying hairy-coated. Or 'runt' to mean 'undersized person'.

STEP 2:

It is, now speaking, with Carnap, INTENSIONALLY too, general boring practice to treat 'shaggy' to signify (or mean) 'hairy coated' (or 'hairy-coated' to mean shaggy).

STEP 3:

It is generally, as a matter of fact, rather 'de iure', acceptED that it is LEGITIMATE (sc.) acceptABLE) to treat 'shaggy' as signfiing or to signify 'hairy-coated'.

STEP 4:

It is legitimate (ceteris paribus acceptable) to deem and treat 'shaggy' to signify or as signifying 'hairy-coated'.

STEP 5:

"'shaggy' signifies 'hairy-coated'".