“Do you know what it means that W. behaves as
he does but sees nothing; & on the other hand that he
sees?” If you ask yourself this & answer ‘yes’ you conjure up some sort of image. This image is it seems derived “I say ‘I have toothache’ because I feel it” contrasts this case with, say, the case of acting on the stage but can't explain what ‘having toothache’ means because having toothache = feeling toothache & the explanation would come to “I say I have it because I have it”. = I say I have it because it is true. = I say I have it because I don't lie. One wishes to say: In order to be able to say that I have toothache I don't observe my behaviour, say in the mirror. And this is correct, but it doesn't follow that you describe an observation of any other kind. Moaning is not the description of an observation. You || That is you can't be said to derive your expression from what you observe. Just as you can't be said to derive the word ‘green’ from your visual impression but only from a sample. – Now against this one is inclined to say: “Surely if I call a colour green I don't just say that word, but the word comes in a particular way”, or “if I say ‘I “But surely I know that I am not a mere automaton!” – What would it be like if I weren't || were? – “How is it that I can't imagine myself not seeing, hearing etc. || experiencing?” – We constantly confuse & change about the common sense use & the metaphysical use. “I know that I see.” – “I see.” – You seem to read this off some fact; as though you said: “There is a chair in this corner.” “But if in an experiment, e.g. I say ‘I see’ why do I say so? Surely because I see!” It is as though our expressions of personal experience needn't even spring from regularly recurrent inner experiences but just from something. Confusion of description & sample. |
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