--- I'm elaborating on this but a few things connect (with J's excellent remark that 'desires' are not discrete, while disjunctions are).
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"indeterminacy" of conversational implicata (online "Logic and Conversation). You gotta love Grice for stating that, 'by uttering 'He hasn't been to prison yet', he meant that he is potentially dishonest, or that his colleagues are trecherous or that his aunt is a criminal and he should be him a visit before too long or ...'.
"and"-reduction. It has been claimed (by Harnish) that the 'oddity' of:
"He likes peaches-and-cream"
-- Therefore, he likes peaches"
--- (or 'desires') is to be explained as a breach of 'informativeness' (rather than truthiness -- cfr. The invention of truthiness).
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This may have some odd consequences -- but perhaps explained implicatural. "Smith is bisexual; ergo he is heterosexual and homosexual". "I desire a green shirt" "Therefore, I desire a yellow/blue shirt". Or something.
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