Single Idea 22419

[catalogued under 16. Persons / D. Continuity of the Self / 3. Reference of 'I']

Full Idea

'I' is used as a subject in 'I am in pain', ....and used as an object in 'I am bleeding'.

Gist of Idea

'I' is a subject in 'I am in pain' and an object in 'I am bleeding'

Source

report of Ludwig Wittgenstein (The Blue and Brown Notebooks [1936], pp. 66-7) by Colin McGinn - Subjective View: sec qualities and indexicals 4

Book Reference

McGinn,Colin: 'The Subjective View' [OUP 1983], p.48


A Reaction

How about 'my wound is painful'? Does that have the logical form of a conversation? This idea is incorrect. Shoemaker (1968) suggests that the subjective use is immune to error, unlike the object use.