ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces two quasi-technical terms, including autobiographical statement, and heterobiographical statement. The autobiographical statement describes someone's feelings or sensations which explicitly shows, in the actual form of its expression, that the author of the statement is also its designated subject. The heterobiographical statement describes somebody's feelings which are not expressed in the first person singular. It is worth noticing how the argument from analogy, as stated by philosophers, approaches is called as the common-sense position, but also misrepresents and over-simplifies it. It has been necessary first to insist on the truism that all statements about feelings and sensations, including such statements expressed in the first person singular, are 'statements about other minds' for some people. The importance of the truism can be brought out in the analogous case of 'statements about the past'.
