ABSTRACT
The apparent failure of the suggestions that the intransitive bodily sensations are a species of sensible quality, or a species of sense-impression, leads on to the view that they are irreducibly themselves. The notion that a physical substance can have a non-physical quality, or be the place where a non-physical event or item can be located, seems to be a very curious one. The only alternative would be to deny that bodily sensations really were intrinsic features of parts of the body. As Wittgenstein argues in the Philosophical Investigations, if one cannot be wrong about something, then one cannot be right about it either. It is true, of course, that it is very difficult to give any alternative account of ‘first-person reports of present experience’ which will do justice to their apparent incorrigibility, yet avoid the assumption that they are reports on ‘private items’.
