ABSTRACT
We established in the previous chapter that we need not posit any private entities like sensations, sense impressions or sense-data to account for our observation. I try to show in this chapter that the individual needs no private, or any special language to register his thoughts, feelings and sensations. For we can, and in fact we always do register our sensations in the ordinary language. In arriving at this conclusion I have examined and exposed the errors, namely (a) the error about the nature of experience, and (b) the error about the nature of language, which underlie the mistaken view that we need a private language to register our thoughts, feel ings, and sensations. In the end, I have maintained the thesis that the concept of a ‘private language’ rests on a category mistake.
