Così è (se vi pare)

Grice travelled through Italy on his way to Grice -- in his 20s. Properly after graduating from Corpus Christi.

Pirandello should have read Grice, The causal theory of perception, when he opened in Firenze his little one-act play

Così è (se vi pare)

Thus is, if (it) appears to ye.

Grice's example:

That pillar box seems red to me.
It appears to me that it is red.
The pillar box apears red to me.

But IT IS red.

Who ever said it wasn't?

Etc.