… is used in a way to express an opinion
which we reject. The opinion e.g.
that all other people except A (or myself) are
shamming when they say that they have
toothache. It
seems that I want to || the
solipsist wants to say of them that they haven't got
toothache i.e. that he
wants to say of them that which the sentence
‘they haven't got
toothache’ says in the
ordinary language. Whereas what
he really wishes to do is to change the notation.
Analogous when the idealist says that the tree doesn't
exist when nobody looks at it. He is prompted to say this
but the || his sentence in ordinary language
expresses a view which he isn't at all keen on
holding. He doesn't wish to say that
the tree in the sense in which it might vanish while we look at it
actually always vanishes as soon as everybody
turns their backs on
it. But he is not able to overcome the difficulty of
expression which consists in his expressing himself in the phraseology in which views about
things are uttered in ordinary language instead of the
phraseology of grammar; i.e.
giving || laying down rules. Why
is he unable to emerge from
that phraseology? Note the usage of the word
‘possibility’. The confusion we talk
about is all here || prepared
Think1 of Jekyll & Hyde. In which cases would we talk of two persons inhabiting the same body? Memories. Imagine my memory today to leave out yesterday the day before the day before yesterday etc. but tomorrow remembering yesterday etc. We could Imagine everybody getting two names for the odd & even days of his life because of memory leaving out every other day. |
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