ABSTRACT

One of the questions was whether or not the relation between signalling and raising one's arm is like that between raising one's arm and making one's muscles move in such-and-such a manner. This chapter considers a matter which connects in an important way with some of the issues involved in question of how we keep our promise. A person fogged with sleep, relearning the use of his limbs after having suffered paralysis, or being subjected to so-called muscular co-ordination experiments might well be in doubt as to just what his limbs are doing and just where they might be. The use of an argument to establish the occurrence of a continuum of kinaesthetic sensations should warn us against possible conceptual confusions. The picture is an old and a persuasive one. Each of us receives sensations from our bodies just as we receive sensations from external objects through the stimulation of our sensory organs.