Grice on 'dossiers'

I have expanded elsewhere on Grice's important notion of a 'conversational dossier' as used by Evans in his influential "Varieties of Reference".

In this connection, suffice it to relate it to the identificatory-use of a descriptive phrase.

"Jones' butler did not get the hats and coats mixed up'.

"The utterer might come to think that Jones has

butler, or that though he has, it is not

the butler who is the portly man with the

protruding ears, etc., and whom the (other) utterer

thinks to have mixed up the hats and coats".