In this paper the author discusses and defends a theory of consciousness inspired by Franz Brentano, according to which every conscious experience involves a certain kind of immediate awareness of itself. All conscious experience is in a certain fundamental sense ‘self-intimating’—it constitutively involves awareness of that very awareness. The author calls this ‘the awareness of awareness...
In the course of Wittgenstein's repeated attempts at a systematic exposition of his ideas, from the Blue Book to the Philosophical Investigations, it was invariably the arguments relating to meaning as use which set the stage for the rest of the discussion.It was precisely the insight conveyed by these arguments which, in 1930-31, led to an over-all philosophical breakthrough in Wittgenstein's...