Grice on "What There Is"

--- This is a comment to a comment by J in "Pegasus by any other name" where he cleverly notes that if you say, "ghosts don't exist" you are possibly being a naturalist -- and thus commiting yourself to a naturalist ontology, contra Quine (who says that if you say things of the form "... don't exist" you don't commit to diddly.

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I would disagree.

I would think that the IMPLICATURE of, say, "ghosts don't exist" is, indeed, that you are being a naturalist -- or a kind mother trying to reassure a child who Kant sleep.

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Strictly, if you say, "ghost don't exist" you haven't, literally, said anything.

Or something.