For to say that he has a private object
means that we shall regard no description which he may give of
it as really telling us what it
's like.
We assume
that when
he was taught our language the privacy of the object made it
impossible to teach him the applications of language to this
object. But what if he just had
guessed the
right application? But which
is the right
application? There is nothing to guess at. But
couldn't he if only by chance have stumbled on the
analogical application || application
analogous to the public one? But what are we in
this
12
case to call
‘analogous’?