In that same section of his ch. 5 of his thesis, Dale cites further from Lewis,
"... in sensu diviso is problematic because
expectation and the like apply fundamentally
to states of affairs. If I expect that each
driver will keep right, I do expect a state of
affairs: each driver will keep right. But if
I expect, of each driver, that he will keep
right, what states of affairs do I expect? "He
will keep right" does not specify any state of
affairs until the pronoun has been replaced
by some sort of description - verbal,
pictorial, or otherwise - of the person
in question."
---- I wouldn't know what to expect of the late Lewis. Or, to be honest, the late Grice. But Grice would think that quantification was somehow misguided.
There's 'boy', 'the boy', and 'some boy'. He also speaks of one SPECIAL 'object', which he calls:
'the altogether boy'
This contrasts with another boy, whom he meets (also on 'special' occasions -- since he is a special object) and which Grice calls:
'the one-at-a-time boy'
I propose
the each boy
as yet another of them [sic] special boys. Etc.
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