The idea is here that there is an
‘expression’ for everything, that we know what it
means ‘to express something’, ‘to
describe something’. Here is a feeling, an
experience, & now I could say to someone “express
it!”. But what is to be the relation
of the expression to what it
expresses? In what way is this expression the expression
of this feeling rather than another?! One is
inclined to say “we
mean this feeling by this
expression”, but what is meaning
a feeling by a word
like? Is this quite clear if, e.g.,
I have explained what ‘meaning this person by the
name ‘N’’ is like?