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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 Ref
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.