His definition of "I" as studied by heart by me -- via Perry -- and cited by Chapman in extenso (p. 27 -- we are getting closer! I'm reading her book backwards as I drop these marginalia):
"someone hears a noise"
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"a (past) hearing of a nose is an elemnet in
a t. t. s. which is a member
of a series of t. t. s.'s such that
every member of the series EITHER
would, given certain conditions,
contain as al element a MEMORY
of some EXPERIENCE which is an element
in some previous member,
OR
contains as an element some experience
a memory of which would,
given certain conditions, occur as an
element in some subsequent member;
there being no subject of members
which is independent from all the rest."
Who was in the Editorial Board -- I can't think G. Ryle cared to understand this -- as he allowed publication in his _Mind_ for 1941.
Granted, it was wartime.
-- Actually, I love Grice's analysis. It fails to provide a complete 'implicature' of 'noise' though -- meaning "bad" hearing.
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"a (past) hearing of a nose is an elemnet in
a t. t. s. which is a member
of a series of t. t. s.'s such that
every member of the series EITHER
would, given certain conditions,
contain as al element a MEMORY
of some EXPERIENCE which is an element
in some previous member,
OR
contains as an element some experience
a memory of which would,
given certain conditions, occur as an
element in some subsequent member;
there being no subject of members
which is independent from all the rest."
A beautiful analysis!