Grice on □Fx

I wrote in my marginal commentaria to Chapman, p. 163.

Discussing what is for a tiger to tigerise, etc.

It seems that, sceptical as he was about possible-worlds, Grice was a closet-essentialist (cf. 'skeleton in the closet').

For it seems he WOULD accept, constructively, that

Fx is "necessary" i.e. true in all possible worlds.

The dangerous (to some) side to this is that, with Grice, is not trivial examples (alla Kripke, whether the Queen of England would still be Queen had 'he' be born with a pair of different organs).

It is, with Grice,

persons

being _essentially_ rational -- and stuff.