ABSTRACT
The language of introspection arises as an analogical language, since it arises whenever men begin to liken something, which certainly is not 'there for all to see', with things that definitely have this public status. An element of analogy is present even in the most commonplace use of introspective terms, of words such as 'thinking', 'wishing', 'loving' and the like. The language of introspection is a language in which ranges of analogical description, each capable of indefinite extension, have come to be accepted, among a certain class of speakers, as more or less stating the meaning of various characteristic terms and verbal forms. In taking likeness of analogical description as a sufficient test for likeness of inner experience, the authors justify the mentioned problematic 'postulates'. They find that the most widely current classification of the inner acts and attitudes is precisely one which classifies these in analogical correspondence with the typical relations of the living creature to external things.
