Let us sum up: If we
scrutinize the usages which we make of such words as
“thinking”, “meaning”,
“wishing”, etc.,
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going through this process
rids us of the temptation to look for a peculiar act of thinking,
independent of the act of expressing our thoughts, and stowed away
in some peculiar medium. We are no longer prevented by
the established forms of expression from recognizing that the
experience of thinking
may be just the experience of
saying, or may consist of this experience plus others which
accompany it. (It is useful also to examine the
following case: Suppose a multiplication is part of a
sentence; ask yourself what it is like to say the multiplication
“7 ×
5 = 35”, thinking it, and, on the other
hand, saying it without thinking.) The scrutiny of
the grammar of a word weakens the position of certain standards
of our expression which had prevented us from seeing facts with
unbiasse
d eyes. Our investigation
tried to remove this bias, which forces us to think that the facts
must conform to certain pictures embodied in our
language.