"structure" and "function" in Grice

This to acknowledge, once again, the profunidity of S. R. Bayne's comment on 'structure', this blog. His post.

Elsewhere, I noted my recent discovery of 'structure' via the obits of Levi-Strauss.

Reading Grice, "Reply to Richards", I was once moved to congratulate, elsewhere, J. Huggins on his ability to "see the structure" -- and defined 'philosophy' as the study of structure par excellence -- I guess he liked that.

OTOH, I once used the term, 'teleo-functionalism': a hybrid if ever there was one.

Function and structure, or 'form and function' are used by Grice in a couple places. Eg.

'cabbage' and 'king' -- vide "Cabbages and Kings".

Cabbages have a certain _form_ ('morphe', in Greek).

Cabbages have a certain _matter_ ('hyle', in Greek).

But they also have a _telos_, a function.

It's the function that informs the 'form'. This may be regarded as 'evolutionary' -- which is a word that Chapman uses, at least one, to qualify Grice's pirotological remarks (his idea of 'soul' as forming a 'developing series' alla Aristotle).

These thoughts are unconnected, but worth pursuing.