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Another drawback of Davidson's account, Grice notes (PPQ, vol. 67, p. 22) is the inability to understand a given predicate as 'predicate within a theory'.
Grice's take on this is infused by his deep knowledge of the best tradition in the philosophy of science from Ramsey via Carnap onwards. As he expressed it:
"One might hold that attributes are signified by THEORETICAL
predicates in the relevant branch of theory. There is in general
no difficulty in distinguishing one theoretical predicate from
another."
Yet Davidson fails to recognise them.
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