Grice on non-identificatory uses of "Jones' butler" (Grice, Vacuous Names, p. 131)

Grice notes in a footnote that Donnellan has discussed this.

There's the non-identificatory use of a descriptive term or better, a 'descriptive phrase', such as "Jones' butler".

Grice's scenario:

"A group of men is discussing the situation

arising from the death of a business

acquaintance, of whose private life they

know nothing, expect that (as they think)

he lived extravantly, with a household

staff which included a butler" or equerry,

as I prefer.

"One of them says,

'Well, Jones's butler will be seeking a new position'"

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Grice adds:

"The utterer [of such a remark] might,

'without impropriety, have inserted, after

the descriptive phrase, 'Jones's butler'

--- "whoever he may be".

It's different with another use of descriptive phrases.