It is easy to heap ridicule on the notion that we can discover the truth of such a claim by doing something called “analyzing meanings.”9 It seems easy to say (with the skeptic) that we might have the ability without the feels. But it is hard, as Wittgenstein and Bouwsma have made clear, actually to tell a coherent story about what we have imagined. Despite this, (P′) has a certain plausibility. The reason it is plausible is that it is, once again, a corollary of: (P) Whenever we make an incorrigible report on a state of ourselves, there must be a property with which we are presented which
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September 18, 2020. Not bed yet. Page 100. Wittgenstein does not think we can accurately report what we imagine. Why?
