Buttering Parsnips

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If "meet" is unequivocal, so is 'butter' -- Grice, PPQ, vol. 67, p. 8. Here Grice's scheme goes:

1. " ... butterered ..." (Bill buttered a parsnip).

2. " ... buttered ... in ... ('in the bathroom').

3. " ... buttered ... in ... in the presence of ..."

Surely, the 'linguistic analogue' of the same action may vary, but we do not need to multiply events or actions beyond necessity.

Grice puts this as follows:

It may be held that (1), (2), and (3) are "structures which do NOT have common instances."

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