Geach's own analysis of this problem concedes that unasserted optative clauses within larger constructions do not thereby become truth-apt, they merely become embedded non-assertions.

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Embedded(describes conditionals appearing inside disjunctions or other sentences): When one sentence or clause is placed inside another larger sentence, like nesting boxes—for example, 'if it rains' is embedded in 'John said that if it rains, he'll stay home.'
Geach(The statement discusses an objection Geach made): Peter Geach was a 20th-century British philosopher who raised logical objections to certain philosophical theories, including one about how language and meaning work.
Optative clause(the type of grammatical construction being analyzed): A part of a sentence that expresses a wish or desire (like 'I wish that...' or 'may you...').
non-assertion(Sextus's account of the Skeptic's use of formulaic phrases (PH I 192–3)): A mode of utterance in which the Skeptic reports how things appear to him rather than making a claim about how things are

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