ABSTRACT
Although a certain view of sensations and sensation-reports which seems ascribable to Wittgenstein was rejected in the foregoing section, it does not follow that there is nothing to be learnt about them, or about the shortcomings of Locke's conception of them, from the Wittgensteinian argument against the possibility of a private language. At the same time Locke's view has certain strengths by comparison with Wittgenstein's. The two may perhaps be brought into productive conflict by the consideration of a well-known, but at first sight rather surprising passage in the Essay.
