Cows and their Visa

Cows fascinated Grice. And Warnock. To the point that they thought of coining a new word in English, 'visa' (singular, visum).

I saw a cow.

I saw a visum of a cow.

(cfr. "I smelled the smell of a cow").

Cows feature in Dale's discussion of Fodor.

In a footnote to ch. iv, with which R. B. Jones was especially interested, Dale notes:

"[Fodor] still, I imagine, thinks the
semantic value of "cow" will be something
like cows, not the physical property assigned to "cow" by a compositional-supervenience theory which will surely not be anything like cows!"

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More later, I hope!