Why a second approach is bad

In adopting a first approach to regard closed formulae in a system -- his example of "Bellerophon rode Pegasus" --, where "Pegasus" and "Bellerophon" will ALWAYS bear a higher numerical subscript, of course, than 'ride' --, Grice dismisses a rather bad view.

According to this bad view,

"formulae may be thought of as structures

underlying, and exemplified by, sentences

in a language (or in languages) the

actual lexical items of which are left

unidentified".

He is having Chomsky and Quine in mind! "I love them both" -- he sorts of says, in "Reply to Richards", but "it pains me to tears", he adds, sort of, that 'close enough as they stand' (both in Cambridge, Massachusets), 'they never agreed on ONE thing' -- 'nor I with them', he adds, sort of.

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