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THE MEANING OF ' I

on Third Programme

by P. F. Strawson
Fellow of University College, Oxford
How do we distinguish and identify people? What do I mean when I refer to myself? It is much easier than you might suppose to start a long line of illusion by misconceiving the uses of the personal pronoun, and the illusion can be quite disastrous; Descartes, for example.

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