Grice On Being Byzantine

“If a philosopher were to advance the not wholly plausible thesis that to feel F (e. g., byzantine) is just to have a Rylean agitation which is caused by the thought that one is or might be F (i. e., byzantine), it would surely be ridiculous to criticise the philosopher on the grounds that he had saddled himself with a general ontological commitment to feelings, or to modes of feeling.”