Personal Identity: H. P. Grice on Locke's Interlocking Series of Memorative and Memorable States

Grice puns on 'lock':


'Someone, viz. I, hears that the bell tolls'

iff ‘a hearing that the bell tolls is a component i

n an item of an ‘interlocking’ series, 

with emphasis on ‘lock,’ of this 

or that ‘memorable’ and ‘memorative’ 

total temporary t_n state S₁.