Grice against Quine's wicked 'advocacy of the general inability of singular terms'

So, Grice is presenting "Vacuous Names" to tease Professor Quine -- "of those who are approximately my contemporaries, Professor Quine is one of the very few to who I feel I owe the deepest of professional debts".

How deep is your debt!

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Grice is exploring "an alternative to one of

Professor Quine's [wicked] central positions,

namely his advocacy of the idea of the

general eliminability of singular terms,

including names."



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From "The memoirs of a mother". "I baptised him Willard Van Orman".

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